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Multi-level structure of the First Tuesday communities after the 2000 dot-com crash: A social network analysis of economic actors based on web archives

  • Quentin Lobbé

The First Tuesday initiative began in the UK in 1998. This series of monthly meetings between IT entrepreneurs and investors played a key role in the development of the new digital economy. In this chapter, we use First Tuesday meetings as empirical proxies to analyze the social system of the economic actors who survived the 2000 dot-com crash. To this end, we delve into the raw web archives of the firsttuesday.com website in order to reconstruct the social network of First Tuesday attendees. Our analysis reveals that the First Tuesday community was, on one hand, regionally decentralized (both online and offline), but on the other hand, organized in two transnational groups of actors: the financial block and the technological block.

  • Keywords:
  • first tuesday,
  • financial web,
  • social network analysis,
  • web cernes,
  • stochastic block models,
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Quentin Lobbé

CNRS, France - ORCID: 0000-0003-2691-5615

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Chapter Title

Multi-level structure of the First Tuesday communities after the 2000 dot-com crash: A social network analysis of economic actors based on web archives

Authors

Quentin Lobbé

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English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.21

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2024

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Book Title

Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age

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Proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, Marseille, June 2023

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Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard

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362

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2024

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2

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