]> BibSonomy publications for /bibtex/2395472c69e2f3c239d1d69817d23e894/wnpxrz http://www.bibsonomy.org/burst/bibtex/2395472c69e2f3c239d1d69817d23e894/wnpxrz BibSonomy BuRST Feed for /bibtex/2395472c69e2f3c239d1d69817d23e894/wnpxrz 2008-09-06T22:04:35+02:00 Novelty and collective attention Novelty and collective attention -- Wu and Huberman 104 (45): 17599 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceshttp://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2395472c69e2f3c239d1d69817d23e894/wnpxrz wnpxrz 2008-01-25T17:02:46+01:00 attention collective imported novelty proj:bk
Novelty and collective attention
Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 17599-17601 (2007)
to attention collective imported novelty proj:bk on 2008-01-25 17:02:46 ]]> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences4517599-17601{Novelty and collective attention}1042007attention collective imported novelty proj:bk 2008-01-25 17:02:46.0The 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.