Novelty and collective attention Export

@article{citeulike:2481055, abstract = {10.1073/pnas.0704916104 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 to novel items propagates and eventually fades among large populations. We have analyzed the dynamics of collective attention among 1 million users of an interactive web site, digg.com, devoted to thousands of novel news stories. The observations can be described by a dynamical model characterized by a single novelty factor. Our measurements indicate that novelty within groups decays with a stretched-exponential law, suggesting the existence of a natural time scale over which attention fades.}, author = {Wu, Fang and Huberman, Bernardo A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2481055}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0704916104}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/104/45/17599.full.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/104/45/17599.full.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/45/17599}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17962416}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17962416}, day = {6}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.0704916104}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, keywords = {collective, memes, socialcognition}, month = {November}, number = {45}, pages = {17599--17601}, posted-at = {2008-05-30 14:13:22}, priority = {2}, title = {Novelty and collective attention}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0704916104}, volume = {104}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2481055 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2481055 N2 - 10.1073/pnas.0704916104 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 to novel items propagates and eventually fades among large populations. We have analyzed the dynamics of collective attention among 1 million users of an interactive web site, digg.com, devoted to thousands of novel news stories. The observations can be described by a dynamical model characterized by a single novelty factor. Our measurements indicate that novelty within groups decays with a stretched-exponential law, suggesting the existence of a natural time scale over which attention fades. IS - 45 JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences EP - 17601 TI - Novelty and collective attention VL - 104 SP - 17599 KW - collective KW - memes KW - socialcognition AU - Wu, Fang AU - Huberman, Bernardo PY - 2007/11/06/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0704916104 ER -