A Graph-Based Socioeconomic Analysis of Steemit

Guidi, Barbara; Michienzi, Andrea; Ricci, Laura

doi:10.1109/tcss.2020.3042745

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“…These two platforms manage to register impressive numbers of users worldwide [ 10 ], and they are the subject of our research because they provide users with a wide range of functions and options. Further, we focused solely on Facebook and Instagram and not on other platforms such as YouTutbe, Tik Tok, Steemit [ 84 ], Researchgate, LinkedIN, Skillshare or Coursera, and we further present several reasons for this. Hence, YouTube was not included in our research because, even though, through the functions and instruments that it incorporates, it can provide users with diversified content.…”

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Dear student, what should I write on my wall? A case study on academic uses of Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic

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Prior to the COVID 19 pandemic, discussions about online learning referred to the use of e-learning platforms and social networks as auxiliary tools in the educational process. Due to the pandemic, universities were forced to adopt an exclusive online teaching process and most universities today use platforms dedicated to online learning such as Moodle platforms. In this context, we were interested in analyzing the attitude of students regarding the way social networks could be integrated into the educational process, and if the positive attitude of students towards social networks and their use for academic purposes, proven in previous studies, remains positive under the conditions generated by the pandemic. In this regard, the present study aimed at identifying the attitude of Romanian students towards the use of Facebook and Instagram as educational tools and the circumstances in which students believe these platforms could be used by them and their teachers. An online survey was conducted on 872 students from public higher education institutions in Romania. Based on the exploratory factor analysis and the parametric test, the empirical results show that students have a slightly positive attitude towards using Facebook in the educational process, but they have a more reticent, less positive attitude towards using Instagram. Thus, the most appropriate contexts in which these platforms could be used are represented by extracurricular activities. A higher preference for the use of Facebook rather than Instagram, was identified among master and PhD students. No major differences were revealed in student subgroups sorted by gender or study domain.

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“…Blockchains like Steem and Bitcoin produce new tokens each time a block is produced. Unlike Bitcoin, where all of the new coins go to the block producers (called miners) [24], the Steem blockchain allocates a majority of the new tokens to a reward fund called the "rewards pool" [15]. The rewards pool gives users tokens for participating in the platform based on the value they add.…”

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“…Current studies are trying to study more in detail the role of rewards in BOSMs and the social nature of these platforms [5,15,16,18,22] by exploiting the Steem blockchain, which is publicly available and it has more than 1 million users. In the Steem blockchain, one of the main roles is the witness, which is responsible for creating a block and part of the governance body of the platform.…”

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Analysis of Witnesses in the Steem Blockchain

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Online Social Networking platforms (OSNs) have become part of people’s everyday life and their usage covers the deep-rooted need for communication among humans. During recent years, as people are questioning more and more OSN service providers, a new generation of proposals, based on blockchain became very popular thanks to the ethics adopted by these platforms. Steemit is the most important blockchain-based social networking site, which integrates, as main novelty an economic layer to the social media service. Steemit is implemented on top of Steem which, as in other blockchains, awards miners of the blocks with cryptocurrency. Steem miners, called witnesses, are not chosen based on the solution of a mathematical problem, as in Proof of Work based systems, but must be voted by other users. In this work, we decide to study the witnesses on Steem and their contribution to the social platform Steemit, and their social impact. We performed a set of analyses to shred light concerning their behaviour and to understand how they are socially perceived by other users. Analyses show an important social impact but, at the same time, some of them have a negative social impact. Their discussion is polarized towards content concerning Steem, Steemit, witnesses, and other platforms hosted on Steem.

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“…Current BOSMs provide free content that is usually visible to anyone and encourage users to produce valuable content, which is rewarded by the community in order to limit the spread of fake news [7][8][9]. The common way to reward users is with cryptocurrency.…”

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An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View

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2021

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Social media is becoming one of the dominant ways to communicate. Before social media, people were extremely limited in their means to interact with others, and they were limited largely to the people that they knew in person. However, this impact on people in real life has damaged privacy. Alternative solutions have been proposed in order to overcome current social media issues. In this direction, blockchain is one of the most promising, and several blockchain-based social media have been proposed. In this paper, we analyze blockchain online social media from the technical point of view in order to understand the current trend of social DApps and to describe which characteristics are important in a blockchain-based social media scenario. We analyze real data by exploiting one of the most well-known DApps sites, and we compare current technologies in order to highlight which ones can be better applied to a real social scenario, such as Facebook.

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A Graph-Based Socioeconomic Analysis of Steemit

Cited by 51 publications

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Dear student, what should I write on my wall? A case study on academic uses of Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic

Dear student, what should I write on my wall? A case study on academic uses of Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic

Analysis of Witnesses in the Steem Blockchain

An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View

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