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Information Acquisition and Exchange In Social Networks [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 2017 A central feature of social networks is information sharing. The Internet and related computing technologies define the relative costs of private information acquisition and forming links with others. This paper presents an experiment on the effects of changing costs.We find that a decline in relative costs of linking makes private investments more ...
Goyal, Sanjeev +3 more
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Informal Insurance in Social Networks [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2005 This paper studies bilateral insurance schemes across networks of individuals. While transfers are based on social norms, each individual must have the incentive to abide by those norms, and so we investigate the structure of stable insurance networks, in which self-enforcement constraints are satisfied.
Francis Bloch +2 more
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Information Evolution in Social Networks [PDF]
Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2016 Social networks readily transmit information, albeit with less than perfect fidelity. We present a large-scale measurement of this imperfect information copying mechanism by examining the dissemination and evolution of thousands of memes, collectively replicated hundreds of millions of times in the online social network Facebook.
Lada A. Adamic +3 more
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On the precision of social and information networks [PDF]
Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Online social networks, 2013 The diffusion of information on online social and information networks has been a popular topic of study in recent years, but attention has typically focused on speed of dissemination and recall (i.e. the fraction of users getting a piece of information). In this paper, we study the complementary notion of the precision of information diffusion.
Reza Bosagh Zadeh +3 more
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Exploring Users’ Information Behavior in Social Networks [PDF]
, 2010 Social networks are most commonly seen as a technology used only for entertainment purposes. However, they can also be used for serious purposes in business and education environments because they are powerful tools that can accomplish various roles and ...
Machin-Mastromatteo, Juan-Daniel
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Spread of (mis)information in social networks [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 2009 We provide a model to investigate the tension between information aggregation and spread of misinformation in large societies (conceptualized as networks of agents communicating with each other). Each individual holds a belief represented by a scalar. Individuals meet pairwise and exchange information, which is modeled as both individuals adopting the ...
Acemoglu, Daron +2 more
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Targeted Information Release in Social Networks [PDF]
Operations Research, 2013 As a common practice, various firms initially make information and access to their products/services scarce within a social network; identifying influential players that facilitate information dissemination emerges as a pivotal step for their success.
Junjie Zhou 0002, Ying-Ju Chen
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Gaps in Information Access in Social Networks? [PDF]
The World Wide Web Conference, 2019 Accepted at The Web Conference ...
Benjamin Fish +5 more
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Opportunistic Social Networks for Academia [PDF]
, 2011 This paper begins by describing the behavioural shift in online interactivity and how it has empowered the growth of online social networks and emergent forms of social awareness.
Tiropanis, Thanassis, Leedham, James
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The role of social networks in information diffusion [PDF]
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web, 2012 Online social networking technologies enable individuals to simultaneously share information with any number of peers. Quantifying the causal effect of these technologies on the dissemination of information requires not only identification of who influences whom, but also of whether individuals would still propagate information in the absence of social
Eytan Bakshy +3 more
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