@inproceedings{bb8c4e337bfc415f86b6ba8c6e87fd74,
title = "Did you blog yesterday? Retention in community blogs",
abstract = "We ask what factors cause a blogger to continue participating in the community by contributing content (e.g., posts, comments). We crawled a sample of blogger profiles (contributed 91% posts) from a popular community blogging platform \Blogster{"}. Our results show that the male and aged (senior) bloggers, who face fewer constraints and have more opportunities in the community are more retained than others. Other bloggers pay a high degree of attention to these retained bloggers through implicit (reading posts) and explicit (writing comments) interactions. We have also found that a blogger has higher retention if her friends have also higher retention and a strong social tie reduces retention imbalance between two blogger friends. However, we found that a blogger's network age (e.g., how long ago she joined) has no effect on her retention.",
keywords = "Bloggers, Community blogs, Retention",
author = "Imrul Kayes and Xiang Zuo and Da Wang and Jacob Chakareski",
year = "2014",
month = aug,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1145/2640087.2644178",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2014",
note = "7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2014 ; Conference date: 04-08-2014 Through 07-08-2014",
}