Collective Memory

Collective memory can be quantified through the collective attention received by cultural icons, artifacts, people, scientific ideas, …

This chapter introduces computational social science as a data-driven framework for studying how collective memory forms, persists, and …

This preprint models collective memory as a two-step decay process in which short-lived communicative memory and long-lived cultural …

How long will this article be remembered? How long will people reference it in their conversations, and for how many years will other …

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of …

-- Cultural products have a life of their own: academic papers get cited and songs get downloaded. While scholars have studied these patterns, we know little about how to model the decay of attention.