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Network Weirdness: Exploring the Origins of Network Paradoxes
Farshad Kooti, Nathan O. Hodas, Kristina Lerman
Social networks have many counter-intuitive properties, including the "friendship paradox" that states, on average, your friends have more friends than you do. Recently, a variety…
The Simple Rules of Social Contagion
Nathan O. Hodas, Kristina Lerman
It is commonly believed that information spreads between individuals like a pathogen, with each exposure by an informed friend potentially resulting in a naive individual becoming…
Attention and Visibility in an Information Rich World
Nathan O. Hodas, Kristina Lerman
As the rate of content production grows, we must make a staggering number of daily decisions about what information is worth acting on. For any flourishing online social media syst…
Friendship Paradox Redux: Your Friends Are More Interesting Than You
Nathan O. Hodas, Farshad Kooti, Kristina Lerman
Feld's friendship paradox states that "your friends have more friends than you, on average." This paradox arises because extremely popular people, despite being rare, are overrepre…