News Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network

Gupte, Mangesh; Hajiaghayi, MohammadTaghi; Han, Lu; Iftode, Liviu; Shankar, Pravin; Ursu, Raluca

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10841-9_65

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“…Studies have indicated a higher level of involvement when people choose nontraditional ways of engaging with the news, notably, online posting behavior. Posting has been noted to stem from active and strategic motives (Gupte et al, 2009) and to invoke more attentive types of information processing, such as more careful deliberation (Jung, Kim, & Gil de Zúñiga, 2011;Polletta, Chen, & Anderson, 2009). Also, the desire to share information with others is linked to a higher level of involvement with the content (Rubin & Perse, 1987).…”

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Differential Use, Differential Effects: Investigating the Roles of Different Modes of News Use in Promoting Political Participation

Choi

2016

J Comput-Mediat Comm

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Differential Use, Differential Effects: Investigating the Roles of Different Modes of News Use in Promoting Political Participation

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2016

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“…" We are only aware of a few other works analyzing news dissemination with a game theoretic background. Previous work assumed news is equally appealing to all users [9], and showed that local incentives suffice for higher quality news to reach a large audience in a random graph, by a connectivity argument. It also showed that users attempting to avoid spam may be an important limiting factor.…”

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Korula

et al. 2014

The 2014 ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

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The impact of blogs and microblogging on the consumption of news is dramatic, as every day users rely more on these sources to decide what content to pay attention to. In this work, we empirically and theoretically analyze the dynamics of bloggers serving as intermediaries between the mass media and the general public.Our first contribution is to precisely describe the receiving and posting behaviors of today's social media users. For the first time, we study jointly the volume and popularity of URLs received and shared by users. We show that social media platforms exhibit a natural "content curation" process. Users and bloggers in particular obey two filtering laws: (1) a user who receives less content typically receives more popular content, and (2) a blogger who is less active typically posts disproportionately popular items. Our observations are remarkably consistent across 11 social media data sets. We find evidence of a variety of posting strategies, which motivates our second contribution: a theoretical understanding of the consequences of strategic posting on the stability of social media, and its ability to satisfy the interests of a diverse audience. We introduce a "blog-positioning game" and show that it can lead to "efficient" equilibria, in which users generally receive the content they are interested in. Interestingly, this model predicts that if users are overly "picky" when choosing who to follow, no pure strategy equilibria exists for the bloggers, and thus the game never converges. However, a bit of leniency by the readers in choosing which bloggers to follow is enough to guarantee convergence.

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“…Information from OSNs can also be exploited to improve Internet search engines [26], while others have applied this information to increase profits from viral marketing [33]. OSNs have also applications in Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs) where groups of vehicles' drivers socialize and communicate with each other in order to inform for the roads' conditions [19]. As far as the education is concerned, OSNs can be helpful to a students learning environment, as long as it is used correctly and responsibly [25].…”

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Online Social Networks: Status and Trends

Pallis

Zeinalipour-Yazti

Dikaiakos

2011

Studies in Computational Intelligence

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Abstract. The rapid proliferation of Online Social Network (OSN) sites has made a profound impact on the WWW, which tends to reshape its structure, design, and utility. Industry experts believe that OSNs create a potentially transformational change in consumer behavior and will bring a far-reaching impact on traditional industries of content, media, and communications. This chapter starts out by presenting the current status of OSNs through a taxonomy which delineates the spectrum of attributes that relate to these systems. It also presents an overall reference system architecture that aims at capturing the building blocks of prominent OSNs. Additionally, it provides a state-of-the-art survey of popular OSN systems, examining their architectural designs and business models. Finally, the chapter explores the future trends of OSN systems, presents significant research challenges and discusses their societal and business impact.

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News Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network

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Differential Use, Differential Effects: Investigating the Roles of Different Modes of News Use in Promoting Political Participation

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