Information and Social Analysis of Reddit

Social news websites have the ability to crowd-source the identification and promotion of news articles with the ability for users to discuss topics. Like Online Social Networks (OSNs), social news sites are information rich and contain a new underlying structured network. Reddit is a rising social news website which shares many characteristics to other popular social news websites include StumbleUpon, Digg, and Slashdot, yet has never been analyzed at a high or low level. This paper will provide a broad analysis of Reddit, starting with the initial data crawling, as well as in depth analysis of underling social structures between the article subsections and the users of the site, focusing primarily on the comment section where the bulk of the data exists.