In the massive online worlds of social media, users frequently rely on organizing themselves around specific topics of interest to find and engage with like-minded people. Navigating the massive world of reddit: using backbone networks to map user interests in social media.
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2 Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA DOI 10.7717/peerj-cs.4 Published Accepted Received Academic Editor Massimiliano Zanin Subject Areas Network Science and Online Social Networks, Visual Analytics Keywords Social networks, reddit, Mapping, Network backbone extraction, Social network navigation Copyright © 2015 Olson and Neal Licence This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed.