A rede de comunicação World Wide Web no domínio *.pt: métricas fundamentais

Authors

  • António Machuco Rosa Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
  • Jorge Giro Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS12200776

Keywords:

networks theory, teoria das redes, World Wide Web, distribuição de ligações

Abstract

Nos últimos anos têm sido levados a cabo diversos estudos empíricos que permitem caracterizar as principais métricas topológicas das redes de comunicação. Neste artigo apresentamos os resultados de um estudo da World Wide Web de domínio *.pt, em particular os que respeitam à função de distribuição, coeficiente de agrupamento e distância nessa rede. Mostra-se que os resultados obtidos estão de acordo com os de outros estudos que se debruçaram sobre a World Wide Web mundial. Word Wide Web on the *.pt domain: main topological metrics In the last few years several empirical studies on the subject of the main topological metrics of communication networks have been conducted. This paper reports the main findings of a study about the Word Wide Web on the *.pt domain, in particular those concerning to the distribution function, the clustering coefficient and the distance on that network. Its authors show that such results are in agreement with those of other studies on the global World Wide Web. Finally, they discuss the meaning of these results in the context of new media studies and theory.

Author Biographies

António Machuco Rosa, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Professor Catedrático do DCCATI-Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. Professor de Teoria da Informação e dos Sistemas na Universidade Lusófona, Dept. Ciências da Comunicação, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação. Professor Agregado em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade do Minho em 2005. Obteve o grau de Docteur de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, na especialidade de "Histoire: Histoire des Sciences", com uma tese sobre "Le Concept de Continuité chez C.S.Peirce", em 1993. Principais áreas de investigação: Teoria dos Sistemas, Comunicação, Tecnologias da Informação. Autor de vários livros e artigos científicos nestas áreas. http://paginas.ulusofona.pt/p138/index.html

Jorge Giro, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Mestrando em Sistemas de Comunicação Multimédia, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

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Published

2007-09-28

How to Cite

Machuco Rosa, A., & Giro, J. (2007). A rede de comunicação World Wide Web no domínio *.pt: métricas fundamentais. Observatorio (OBS*), 1(2). https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS12200776

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2007)

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