Quantifying Social Influence in an Online Cultural Market

Quantifying Social Influence in an Online Cultural Market

We revisit experimental data from an online cultural market in which 14,000 users interact to download songs, and develop a simple model that can explain seemingly complex outcomes. Our results suggest that individual behavior is characterized by a two-step process-the decision to sample and the dec...

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Main Authors: Krumme, Katherine Ann (Contributor), Cebrian, Manuel (Contributor), Pickard, Galen E. (Contributor), Pentland, Alex Paul (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2012-07-23T14:32:18Z.
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