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Optimal Engagement-Diversity Tradeoffs in Social Media
Fabian Baumann, Daniel Halpern, Ariel D. Procaccia +3
Social media platforms are known to optimize user engagement with the help of algorithms. It is widely understood that this practice gives rise to echo chambers\emdash users are ma…
Towards a new social laboratory: An experimental study of search through community participation at Burning Man
Ziv Epstein, Micah Epstein, Christian Almenar +6
The "small world phenomenon," popularized by Stanley Milgram, suggests that individuals from across a social network are connected via a short path of mutual friends and can levera…
MemeSequencer: Sparse Matching for Embedding Image Macros
Abhimanyu Dubey, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian +1
The analysis of the creation, mutation, and propagation of social media content on the Internet is an essential problem in computational social science, affecting areas ranging fro…
Beyond Contagion: Reality Mining Reveals Complex Patterns of Social Influence
Aamena Alshamsi, Fabio Pianesi, Bruno Lepri +2
Contagion, a concept from epidemiology, has long been used to characterize social influence on people's behavior and affective (emotional) states. While it has revealed many useful…
Analytical reasoning task reveals limits of social learning in networks
Iyad Rahwan, Dmytro Krasnoshtan, Azim Shariff +1
Social learning -by observing and copying others- is a highly successful cultural mechanism for adaptation, outperforming individual information acquisition and experience. Here, w…