Collective Attention

Cultural proximity reveals a local premium in collective memory
Wikipedia attention data and a large-scale recognition experiment reveal a local premium in collective memory. Participants recognize …
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Saturation of moral language predicts lower content engagement on social media
Across 1,621,147 observations from Twitter, Reddit and 8chan, overall moral relevance is positively associated with engagement. …
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Collective memory across books, chapters, and data
Recent book chapters extend the lab’s work on collective memory, attention, and computational social science.
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Quantifying the temporal dynamics of collective memory and attention in social systems
Collective memory can be quantified through the collective attention received by cultural icons, artifacts, people, scientific ideas, …
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Quantifying the temporal dynamics of collective memory and attention in social systems
Data Science and the Dynamics of Collective Memory
This chapter introduces computational social science as a data-driven framework for studying how collective memory forms, persists, and …
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Quantifying Collective Memories
This preprint models collective memory as a two-step decay process in which short-lived communicative memory and long-lived cultural …
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Quantifying Collective Memories