Understanding influential comments in online conversations

Jiwon Kang; Daejin Choi; Eunil Park; Jinyoung Han

doi:10.1145/3272973.3274054

Understanding influential comments in online conversations

Jiwon Kang
, Daejin Choi
, Eunil Park
, Jinyoung Han

School of Convergence

Hanyang University
Seoul National University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

4 Scopus citations

Abstract

Online communication has become a common social activity in our daily lives. This paper investigates the roles of ‘influential comments’ that affect other comments in online communication. To this end, we collect and analyze a large-scale communication data from Reddit, which consists of 81 K news-related posts and their 3 M associated comments written by 400 K users. Using the collected data, we investigate how the influential comments affect the follow-up comments in a communication in terms of (i) topic similarity and (ii) revealed sentiment. Our work reveals that influential comments tend to more affect their follow-up descendant comments than the post in terms of topic similarity and revealed sentiment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	197-200
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450360180
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274054
State	Published - 30 Oct 2018
Event	2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2018 Companion - Jersey City, United States Duration: 3 Nov 2018 → 7 Nov 2018

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

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Conference	2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2018 Companion
Country/Territory	United States
City	Jersey City
Period	3/11/18 → 7/11/18

Keywords

Influential comment
Online communication
Reddit

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Kang, J., Choi, D., Park, E., & Han, J. (2018). Understanding influential comments in online conversations. In CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 197-200). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274054

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Kang, J, Choi, D, Park, E & Han, J 2018, Understanding influential comments in online conversations. in CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 197-200, 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2018 Companion, Jersey City, United States, 3/11/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274054

Understanding influential comments in online conversations. / Kang, Jiwon; Choi, Daejin; Park, Eunil et al.
CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 197-200 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Kang J, Choi D, Park E , Han J. Understanding influential comments in online conversations. In CSCW 2018 Companion - Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery. 2018. p. 197-200. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). doi: 10.1145/3272973.3274054

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