A couple of days ago I finished writing my Master Thesis. The subject was Attention and Participation in the Social Web. You can read and edit the theoretical approach on the wiki of the Thesis.
- The first part of the work was a theoretical model, explaining how the attention economy works on social networks. It combined a variety of disciplines from sociology, mass psychology to network theory and emergence.
- The second part was, actually, the blog you are currently reading. For almost 2 months I have been trying to apply the theoretical model I constructed on this blog. A couple of days ago, I finished writing the analysis of the results.
Read/Download the results
This analysis is posted in an extensive post called “Bending the Web” at superbloggingtips. It consists of:
- my approach on specific subjects (new content, perfection, participation, etc.)
- the results of my attempts on these subjects
- all kinds of statistics of the blog (comments, pageviews, unique visitors, subscribers, social networks, participation, etc.)
- my remarks on the attention economy of the blogosphere
You can also download the complete master thesis on social networks [pdf] (the theory and the analysis).
Your role on my Thesis
As I note in my conclusion of the article, your assistance is now of utmost importance to complete my research.
In an individual level the statistical results of the blog might seem encouraging; but I don’t have any comparison with any other blogs. Would the statistics seem so interesting if they were compared to other 2-month-old blogs? How was your traffic during the first months of your blog?
Popularity: 16% [?]
