Social network based individualized agenda setting : An approach towards developing an social network based agenda setting

In our work we present a conceptual framework for an individual, social network based agenda setting.The underlying conceptual framework is based on metrics from the personal (extended) ego network of each twitteruser,and the analysis of his interactions with his contacts.We are applying methods from network analysis to derive relevant metrics,which can potentially decide about the
news value of a particular news item for the user. We also present the resulting artifact of our work, which is an open software prototype thatdemonstrates our theoretical approach.We alsodescribe some of the challenges, theoretical and practical issues that we encountered when creating this artifact.