Quantifying the temporal dynamics of collective memory and attention in social systems

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Resumen

Collective memory can be quantified through the collective attention received by cultural icons, artifacts, people, scientific ideas, and technological outputs. This chapter summarizes a two-step decay model in which communicative memory and cultural memory sustain different temporal regimes of social attention.

Publicación
In Handbook of Computational Social Science
Cristian Candia
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor and Head of CRiSS-LAB, School of Engineering and School of Government, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.

My research interests include collective behavior, collective and artificial intelligence, network science, and business analytics.