I’m working on another little analysis of fandom. This time I am looking at the size of baseball fandom on various social networks. I’ve finished getting data for LiveJournal and its clones. I thought some people would be interested in this before I publish a complete analysis in the next few weeks.
I got the average attendance for home and away games. (And combined attendance.) This information was by team. I then compared this to the current size of team specific fan communities on LiveJournal by finding all the communities dedicated to a team. I got the total number of communities, total members, total watched by, total posts, total comments. I repeated this for LiveJournal’s major clones: Blurty, DeadJournal, Dreamwidth Studios, Inksome, InsaneJournal, JournalFen.
I then ran correlations. The simple conclusion so far:
Blurty correlates all but total comments for Away attendance.
Dreamwidth correlates for Total Posts and Home attendance, and all but total comments for Away attendance.
InsaneJournal correlates for all categories, but has no correlation above .5000.
Inksome and JournalFen have no specific communities dedicated to baseball. DeadJournal has two, but neither of those communities have any posts or comments made in reply to them.
