Experience-based Information Systems (EbIS) become more and more sophisticated from a technical point of view. However, there are several shortcomings that seem to limit the input and usage of these systems. The problems identified in this paper are related to knowledge acquisition, to learning issues, as well as to the users’ motivation and trust. We introduce an approach to both enhance the c...

We address the issue of intertemporal topic correlations in a selection of online media consisting of political weblogs and press website content. We wish to investigate in which way various information sources may be correlated, therefore preceding and maybe influencing each other. We use hidden Markov modeling to exhibit dynamic relationships in topic occurrences between distinct groups of we...

Web-based communities have been an interest of social science researchers since the dawn of the millennium. To date, much research into them has focused on the methods to enhance community building and understand those who do not participate in community life, known as lurkers. This paper explores web-based communities as a type of media, classifying types of web-based community such as message...

In the much-observed field of weblogs, corporate blogs are of particular relevance and interest. This study empirically examines the corporate blog phenomenon by reviewing the blog status of 250 companies from the consumer goods industry. Their blogs – if any – were tested with the help of different variables, such as the location of the company, the blog’s updating frequency or its interactivi...

Informal exchanges between friends, family and acquaintances play a crucial role in the dissemination of news and opinion. These casual interactions are embedded in a network of communication that spans our society, allowing information to spread from any one person to another via some set of intermediary ties. Weblogs have recently emerged as a part of our media ecology, and incidentally engen...

One of the central problems in building broad-coverage story understanding systems is generating expectations about event sequences, i.e. predicting what happens next given some arbitrary narrative context. In this paper, we describe how a large corpus of stories extracted from Internet weblogs was used to learn a probabilistic model of event sequences using statistical language modeling techni...

Der Beitrag thematisiert anhand einer Lehrkonzeption zum Thema „Changing Welfare, Changing States? Comparative Social Policies revisited by Gender“ den Einsatz von „networked Weblogs“ – also miteinander vernetzte Blogs auf einer genuin akademische Plattform. Genauer geht es darum, inwiefern diese dafür geeignet sind, blended learning Kurse aus verschiedenen Teilen der Welt zu versammeln und int...

Although weblogs are a popular medium of communication, their influence on society is unclear. In particular, studies that investigate the impact and influence of blogosphere on the community and government have not been fully exploited. Such studies are important especially to the government in reshaping and realigning the policies related to new media. This article presents the outcomes of a ...