Hashtag of Instagram: From Folksonomy to Complex Network

Simona Ibba, Matteo Orrù, Filippo Eros Pani, Simone Porru

2015

Abstract

The Instagram is a social network for smartphones created in 2010 and acquired by Facebook in 2012. It currently has more than 300 million registered users and allows for the immediate upload of images (square, inspired by Polaroid), to which users can associate hashtags and comments. Moreover, connections can be created between users that share the same interests. In our work, we intend to analyze the hashtags entered by users: the use of such hashtags, as it happens in other social networks like Twitter, generates a folksonomy, that is a user-driven classification of information. We intend to map that folksonomy as a complex network to which we can associate all the typical analysis and evaluations of such a mathematical model. Our purpose is to use the resulting complex network as a marketing tool, in order to improve brand or product awareness.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ibba S., Orrù M., Pani F. and Porru S. (2015). Hashtag of Instagram: From Folksonomy to Complex Network . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-158-8, pages 279-284. DOI: 10.5220/0005613502790284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod15,
author={Simona Ibba and Matteo Orrù and Filippo Eros Pani and Simone Porru},
title={Hashtag of Instagram: From Folksonomy to Complex Network},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={279-284},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005613502790284},
isbn={978-989-758-158-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD, (IC3K 2015)
TI - Hashtag of Instagram: From Folksonomy to Complex Network
SN - 978-989-758-158-8
AU - Ibba S.
AU - Orrù M.
AU - Pani F.
AU - Porru S.
PY - 2015
SP - 279
EP - 284
DO - 10.5220/0005613502790284