The hyperlink is a fundamental feature of the web. This paper investigates how hyperlinks
have been used as research objects in social sciences. Reviewing a body of literature …

While digital technologies were initially seen as harbingers of globalisation and
cosmopolitanism, scholars increasingly acknowledge their role in the rise of nationalism and …

The moment when the hyperconnectedness of our world became most evident to me was on
October 20th, 2011, when images of the death of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to analyze the link‐based web site impact measure
known as the web impact factor (WIF). It is a quantitative tool for evaluating and ranking web …

Complex networks such as the Internet, WWW, transportation networks, power grids,
biological neural networks, and scientific cooperation networks of all kinds provide …

We present a new algorithm for finding large, dense subgraphs in massive graphs. Our
algorithm is based on a recursive application of fingerprinting via shingles, and is extremely …

We propose two new tools to address the evolution of hyperlinked corpora. First, we define
time graphs to extend the traditional notion of an evolving directed graph, capturing link …

To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with
information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers …

The web link graph has a nested block structure: the vast majority of hyperlinks link pages
on a host to other pages on the same host, and many of those that do not link pages within …

Commercial search engines are now playing an increasingly important role in Web
information dissemination and access. Of particular interest to business and national …