英文摘要 |
In this research, we took the Top 100 blogs, based on the rank lists maintained by the Taiwan website “Blog Look,” at four time points between 2008 and 2011, respectively, as our research samples. Then, we collected all the blogrolls of our samples at four time points. Therefore, we sifted and figured out four blogroll networks between our samples, respectively. Upon the four blogroll networks, we applied core/periphery analysis recursively to explore core communities and observe their changes. As a result, we found out the top three core communities: picture article, cuisine/travel, and information technology/networking application. And we observed that picture article community is highly connected and lowly growing; cuisine/travel community is lowly connected and highly growing; information technology/networking application community is medium connected and medium growing. Furthermore, compared to the blogosphere around the world, we found that the community of information technology/networking application fits in the blogging trend around the world, and the communities of picture article and cuisine/ travel are special developments of Taiwan blogosphere. |