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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…
Popularity, Novelty and Attention
Fang Wu, Bernardo A. Huberman
We analyze the role that popularity and novelty play in attracting the attention of users to dynamic websites. We do so by determining the performance of three different strategies…
Novelty and Collective Attention
Fang Wu, Bernardo A. Huberman
The subject of collective attention is central to an information age where millions of people are inundated with daily messages. It is thus of interest to understand how attention…