Title: Mining Communication Data in a Music Community: A Preliminary Analysis,
Abstract: Comments play an important role within online creative communities because
they make it possible to foster the production and improvement of authors'
artifacts. We investigate how comment-based communication help shape members'
behavior within online creative communities. In this paper, we report the
results of a preliminary study aimed at mining the communication network of a
music community for collaborative songwriting, where users collaborate online
by first uploading new songs and then by adding new tracks and providing
feedback in forms of comments.