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Factors of Temporal Behavior in Online Media: What Shapes Time on Internet?

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The Internet forms not only new cyberspace but also has a significant impact on the perception of time and its organization. Focusing on the phenomenon of temporal behavior in social media, the current study aims to identify factors that can determine the dynamics of communication in the comments of the popular Russian social network Vkontakte. The research is based on data from six major online media: “Meduza,” “Lenta.ru,” “Rossiyskaya Gazeta,” “Novaya Gazeta,” “Mayak,” and “Russia Today.” We examine the frequency of publications, the dynamics of communication, the temporal distribution of comments, and the post response rate. The identified four temporal behavior models described as “Discussion media,” “Stimulus is a response,” “From call to call,” “Timeless or Silence is gold,” provoke assumptions about the possible causes of differences in the dynamics of communication between Russian Internet users.

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The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-011-00705 “Explanatory Potential of Network Theory in Political Research: Methodological Synthesis as Analytical Strategy.”

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  1. St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    Galina Lukyanova, Denis Martyanov & Diana Budko

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  1. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Daniel A. Alexandrov

  2. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Alexander V. Boukhanovsky

  3. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Andrei V. Chugunov

  4. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Yury Kabanov

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    Olessia Koltsova

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    Ilya Musabirov

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Lukyanova, G., Martyanov, D., Budko, D. (2020). Factors of Temporal Behavior in Online Media: What Shapes Time on Internet?. In: Alexandrov, D.A., Boukhanovsky, A.V., Chugunov, A.V., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O., Musabirov, I. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1242. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65218-0_7

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