Constructing Dispute Social Network for Internet-based Discussion Participants Using Virtual Heat Model of Threaded Replying Trees

Internet forums are the most popular media for communication and knowledge acquisition for modern people. Analyzing the dynamics of the exchange of opinions and mutual arguments on the Internet has been actively studied as the most appropriate alternative means to analyze reality. We propose a method to calculate the "temperature of the emitters" that can quantify the popularity and life span of web-posted articles by using 20,000 articles obtained from a popular web site, PGR21, in Korea. Using the "temperature" analogy of web articles, we can characterize the dynamics of each article in a web dispute bulletin. In addition, we present one novel algorithm to identify what arguments are the most controversial (ho.est) and to what extent the disputes between some users are seriously widening in a certain section. It is also seen that friendship and opposition between the users who participate in a debate can be used to construct a new social network based on political afiliations.