Social networks of an emergent massively collaborative creation community: Case study of hatune miku movie on Nico Nico Douga

Abstract

The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massively collaborative creation via the Web. It is coming to produce important activities such as Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers. As an example of massively collaborative creation, we particularly examine video development on Nico Nico Douga, which is a video sharing website that is popular in Japan. We specifically examine videos on Hatsune Miku, a version of a singing synthesizer application software that has inspired not only song creation but also songwriting, illustration, and video editing. As described herein, creators interact to create new contents though their social network. As described in this paper, we analyzed the process of developing thousands of videos based on creators' social networks. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relations among social networks and creation activities.