1. WEB Dissemination of a Story
Ankica Babic University of Bergen, Norway

2. ”To what extent is it possible to reach a world-wide audience with a message?”
Investigation of the dissemination of a story through digital technologies
Feasibility of Internet technologies to promote news information globally

3. Burma VJ
- Reporting from a Closed Country

4. Data and Methods YouTube footage and news media reporting on Burma VJ
Web information analysis
Graphical presentation of results
(network evolution, information dissemination, sentiment analysis in brief)

5. Network Structure and Network Dynamics
Properties: Scale free, Clustering, Navigation
Models
Small world
Preferential network
Dynamics
Network evolution
How network structure changes as the network evolves?
Diffusion and cascading behavior?
How do news, rumors spread over networks?
Large data
Phenomena not visible at smaller scales becomes visible.

6. Networks, Rich Data
Possible to study phenomena and behaviors at large scales
Rich data:
Facebook (64 million users)
MySpace (300 million users)
YouTube (135 million users)
Communication
Instant Messenger (over 1 billion users)
News and Social media: over 250 million blogs

7. Sources, Approaches, Methods

8. Network Structure and Network Dynamics; Blogs
Properties: Scale free, Clustering, Navigation
Dynamics
Network evolution
How network structure changes as the network evolves?
Diffusion and cascading behavior?
How do news, rumors spread over networks?
Large data
Phenomena not visible at smaller scales becomes visible.
Blogs
Bloggers write posts/ articles and refer to other posts and the information propagates
Data:
10.5 million posts, 16 million links

9. Dissemination of information
80k – 100k hits
60k – 80k hits
40k – 60k hits
20k – 40k hits
10k – 20k hits
0 – 10k hits 9

10. Blogosphere: Initial publications according to the Wikipedia
GERMANY (1)
DENMARK (2)
INDIA (5)
NORWAY (1)
SWEDEN (3)
UK (68)
IRELAND (1)
JAPAN (2)
NETHERLAND (1)
PHILIPPINES (5)
CANADA (1)
USA (36)
QATAR (2)
INDONESIA (1)
MYANMAR (32)
N. ZEALAND (1)
SWITZERLAND (6)
THAILAND (4)
AUSTRALIA (10) 10

11. Burma VJ Film Festival Awards
STOCKHOLM
LEIPZIG
Burma VJ Film Festival Awards
GDANSK
BRATISLAVA
COPENHAGEN
PRAGUE
HELSINKI
WARSAW
MUNICH
BUDAPEST
BERLIN
TORINO
RIGA
VIENNA
NUREMBERG
VILNIUS
MOSCOW
DRESDEN
GOTHENBURG
REYKJAVIK
KIEV
AMSTERDAM
GRIMSTAD
GENEVE
UTAH
THESSALONIKI
TORONTO
GALWAY
LONDON
ISTANBUL
TELLURIDE
PARIS
COLOGNE
OURENSE
MONTE-CARLO
BEIJING
MILANO
NEW YORK
SAN FRANCISCO
JEONJU
BARCELONA
TOKYO
TAMPA
SANTA BARBARA
TAIPEI
LJUBLJANA
HONG KONG
ZAGREB
AUSTIN
HAVANA
FERRARA
JAKARTA
MUMBAI
BOULDER
NOVI SAD
ABU DHABI
BOGOTA
AUCKLAND
BELGRADE
BAHRAIN
MEXICO CITY
SKOPJE
DAMASKUS
SAO PAULO
ATHENS
JERUSALEM
QUITO
LA PAZ
SINGAPORE
GABORONE
ANKARA
CAPE TOWN
BANGKOK
SYDNEY
MELBOURNE
WELLINGTON 11

12. Sentiment analysis: trends in brief
Network activity period –
Activity intervals
months
Hits
2.309 –

13. Results
Graphical presentation of world wide distribution of Burma VJ news and cascading stories in blogs
Political discussions deeply focused on Burma VJ
Participants tend to remain anonymous
Message trends evolving over time:
Engagement and sympathy
Criticism and disapproval of the local authorities
Criticism of Western world governments