Date of Award
2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Computer Science
Committee Chair
Tathagata Mukherjee
Committee Member
Jacob Hauenstein
Committee Member
Chaity Banerjee
Subject(s)
Reddit (Firm), Online social networks--Data processing, Internet--Social aspects--Analysis
Abstract
This thesis analyzes the Reddit social network to identify two aspects of interactions on that platform: (1) implicit leader-follower relationships, which are obtained by mining patterns of user interactions on the network and (2) highly “interconnected” subreddits which are obtained by scoring each subreddit using a “interconnectedness” value derived from the interaction patterns of users across subreddits. The data were obtained from Reddit in 2022 using a custom-built scrapper. This work analyzed 125,000 subreddits. The results show that the most highly connected subreddits on the Reddit network are ones that discuss content considered to be “not suitable for work” (NSFW). Moreover, it was found that though these subreddits were highly connected within themselves, they were sparsely connected with other subreddits on the platform. This thesis also found that the implicit leaders in these subreddits drive the majority of the conversations in these groups.
Recommended Citation
Lindner, Lance, "Analysis of interconnected subreddits on the Reddit social network" (2023). Theses. 621.
https://louis.uah.edu/uah-theses/621