Ranga_The_Donga Posted February 8, 2011 Report Posted February 8, 2011 Many are quick to dismiss conversations in the online world as all too superficial, or even short-lived. Others will argue that micro-blogs and social networking platforms are all about people shouting out their thoughts or informing people about the venue of their last party. Are conversations online really that shallow?Certainly not, proves this young researcher. [b]Ravi Kumar, principal research scientist at Yahoo! Labs has spent over a year studying not only the nature of online conversations but also analysing how these build on different platforms.[/b] In his attempt to identify a common model to explain and predict these conversations, Kumar finds that online conversations tend to be far longer that what existing research models predict.[b]He explains that further analysis of content of these conversations found that ‘recency' (or timeliness) of a conversation topic, or the popularity, are two key factors that drive these interactions. Conversations or heated debates on news, or discussions on a popular celebrity or political figure or ideology, tend to be richer.[/b] Anecdotal evidence suggests that ‘recency' plays a bigger role for topics such as sports and news whereas popularity plays a bigger role for topics such as politics, he says.
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