SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS IN AN ONLINE BLOGOSPHERE

Social network is a social structure that exists among the similar interest of individuals, organizations or even on relations like friendship. Social network analysis is the measure of relationship between people, organizations and processing entities. In today’s scenario, Internet is acting as an interface for the people who spread across the globe to exchange their ideas. Social network analysis is a Web 2.0 application, which facilitates the users tointeract, response and express their views. Social network analysis has greatest attention as a research area in computer science in the recent past. Blogs or weblogs are like catalogs that are maintained by individuals related to a particular topic of interest. In this problem, we analyze the blog responses as social networks that are posted by AIDS patients over a period of time.