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Call me Guru: user categories and large-scale behavior in YouTube

Biel, Joan-Isaac
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Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
2011
Social Media Modeling and Computing

While existing studies on YouTube’s massive user-generated video content have mostly focused on the analysis of videos, their characteristics, and network properties, little attention has been paid to the analysis of users’ long-term behavior as it relates to the roles they self-define and (explicitly or not) play in the site. In this chapter, we present a statistical analysis of aggregated user behavior in YouTube from the perspective of user categories, a feature that allows people to ascribe to popular roles and to potentially reach certain communities. Using a sample of 270,000 users, we found that a high level of interaction and participation is concentrated on a relatively small, yet significant, group of users, following recognizable patterns of personal and social involvement. Based on our analysis, we also show that by using simple behavioral features from user profiles, people can be automatically classified according to their category with accuracy rates of up to 73%.

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book part or chapter
DOI
10.1007/978-0-85729-436-4_8
Author(s)
Biel, Joan-Isaac
Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
Date Issued

2011

Publisher

Springer

Published in
Social Media Modeling and Computing
ISBN of the book

978-0-85729-435-7

Start page

167

End page

188

Subjects

online video

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social media

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user behavior

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youtube

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EPFL

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LIDIAP  
Available on Infoscience
February 7, 2011
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/63985
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