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Swayed by Friends or by the Crowd?
Zeinab Abbassi, Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman
We have conducted three empirical studies of the effects of friend recommendations and general ratings on how online users make choices. These two components of social influence we…
To Switch or Not To Switch: Understanding Social Influence in Recommender Systems
Haiyi Zhu, Bernardo A. Huberman, Yarun Luon
We designed and ran an experiment to test how often people's choices are reversed by others' recommendations when facing different levels of confirmation and conformity pressures.…
What Trends in Chinese Social Media
Louis Yu, Sitaram Asur, Bernardo A. Huberman
There has been a tremendous rise in the growth of online social networks all over the world in recent times. While some networks like Twitter and Facebook have been well documented…
Collective Attention and the Dynamics of Group Deals
Mao Ye, Chunyan Wang, Christina Aperjis +2
We present a study of the group purchasing behavior of daily deals in Groupon and LivingSocial and introduce a predictive dynamic model of collective attention for group buying beh…
Trends in Social Media : Persistence and Decay
Sitaram Asur, Bernardo A. Huberman, Gabor Szabo +1
Social media generates a prodigious wealth of real-time content at an incessant rate. From all the content that people create and share, only a few topics manage to attract enough…