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Human Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Search
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
When foraging for information, users face a tradeoff between the accuracy and value of the acquired information and the time spent collecting it, a problem which also surfaces when…
Harvesting Collective Intelligence: Temporal Behavior in Yahoo Answers
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
When harvesting collective intelligence, a user wishes to maximize the accuracy and value of the acquired information without spending too much time collecting it. We empirically s…
Feedback loops of attention in peer production
Fang Wu, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman
A significant percentage of online content is now published and consumed via the mechanism of crowdsourcing. While any user can contribute to these forums, a disproportionately lar…
Persistence and Success in the Attention Economy
Fang Wu, Bernardo A. Huberman
A hallmark of the attention economy is the competition for the attention of others. Thus people persistently upload content to social media sites, hoping for the highly unlikely ou…
Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope
Bernardo A. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero, Fang Wu
Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, soci…
Public Discourse in the Web Does Not Exhibit Group Polarization
Fang Wu, Bernardo A. Huberman
We performed a massive study of the dynamics of group deliberation among several websites containing millions of opinions on topics ranging from books to media. Contrary to the com…