Instagram is the online photo sharing site and social media which allows the user to share, edit and upload their photos. Its first version was released in October, 2010 allowing users to post their photos. With the passage of time, updated versions were released and its last version was released in August, 2015. Many of the researchers have worked upon this social site to induce different types of information. In my study, I have crawled dataset consist of posts of around 2k users of Instagram and concluded with the help of different experiments that Instagram is News media rather than social media. News have been presented in the form of photos they share. Homophily was found among only 44% users. Results have been shown by different graphs and existing communities inside the dataset have been found.
Track: Graduate Student Paper Competition
Published in: 2nd North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Publisher: IEOM Society International
Date of Conference: September 23
-26
, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9855497-5-6
ISSN/E-ISSN: 2169-8767