@inproceedings{e51bbb34238d48a7aa61fceb765d6b70,
title = "Social reader: Following social networks in the wilds of the blogosphere",
abstract = "The social interactions manifest in blogs by the network of comments left by owners and readers are an under-used resource, both for blog pundits and industry. We present a web-based feed reader that renders these relationships with a graph representation, and enables exploration by displaying people and blogs who are proximate to a user's network. Social Reader is an example of Casual Information Visualization, and aims to help the user understand and explore blog-based social networks in a daily, real-life setting. A six week study of the software involving 20 users confirmed the usefulness of the novel visual display, via a quantitative analysis of use logs, and an exit survey.",
keywords = "Blog, Social network, Visualization",
author = "Brett Adams and Dinh Phung and Svetha Venkatesh",
year = "2009",
month = dec,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1145/1631144.1631159",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781605587592",
series = "1st ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Social Media, WSM'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09",
pages = "73--80",
booktitle = "1st ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Social Media, WSM'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09",
note = "1st ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Social Media, WSM'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09 ; Conference date: 19-10-2009 Through 24-10-2009",
}