Comments on: The AFL on Yahoo!Groups http://ozziesport.com/2010/01/the-afl-on-yahoogroups/ Looking at sport in Oz from a social media and web perspective Mon, 21 May 2012 22:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LauraH http://ozziesport.com/2010/01/the-afl-on-yahoogroups/comment-page-1/#comment-7 LauraH Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:05:32 +0000 http://ozziesport.com/?p=57#comment-7 I might get around to trying to get data from one or two communities at some point. The limited stats from the one community I looked at just felt all out of whack with reality. For me, to understand what is really going on, there are three big pieces:<br><br>1) Demographic characteristics of a group,<br>2) Statistical data regarding historical activity levels, and<br>3) Qualitative analysis explaining how the two above work in relation to content analysis and other real world factors.<br><br>The current posts I've been working on have mostly been focusing on the first. The Yahoo!Groups bit are focusing a bit more on the second. I can get similar data regarding group creation dates for LiveJournal (and clones) and bebo where there are communities for them to paint a picture of migration patterns. I can also track activity levels for Yahoo!Groups and LiveJournal to see where spikes happen. (Does a team need to be doing well for the online audience to be active? Does interest fall off during the off season? Do both correlate to attendance?) Long term, if I get into the PhD program I applied for, I can hopefully begin to figure out what these patterns and offer explanations. I might get around to trying to get data from one or two communities at some point. The limited stats from the one community I looked at just felt all out of whack with reality. For me, to understand what is really going on, there are three big pieces:

1) Demographic characteristics of a group,
2) Statistical data regarding historical activity levels, and
3) Qualitative analysis explaining how the two above work in relation to content analysis and other real world factors.

The current posts I've been working on have mostly been focusing on the first. The Yahoo!Groups bit are focusing a bit more on the second. I can get similar data regarding group creation dates for LiveJournal (and clones) and bebo where there are communities for them to paint a picture of migration patterns. I can also track activity levels for Yahoo!Groups and LiveJournal to see where spikes happen. (Does a team need to be doing well for the online audience to be active? Does interest fall off during the off season? Do both correlate to attendance?) Long term, if I get into the PhD program I applied for, I can hopefully begin to figure out what these patterns and offer explanations.

]]> By: Adelaide Dupont http://ozziesport.com/2010/01/the-afl-on-yahoogroups/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Adelaide Dupont Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:16:27 +0000 http://ozziesport.com/?p=57#comment-5 That would be great to see the dates of creation.<br><br>Many of the Yahoo Groups were once Yahoo Clubs. (circa 1999: I got onto Yahoo in March 2000, but had known about it since it had started).<br><br>It would have been good to look at some of the smaller samples, even if it meant looking at one or two groups. That would be great to see the dates of creation.

Many of the Yahoo Groups were once Yahoo Clubs. (circa 1999: I got onto Yahoo in March 2000, but had known about it since it had started).

It would have been good to look at some of the smaller samples, even if it meant looking at one or two groups.

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