Social influence and the diffusion of user-created content

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 325-334

  Bakshy, Eytan ^a   Karrer, Brian ^b   Adamic, Lada A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovations; Social influence; Social networks; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS; DIGITAL DOMAIN; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; SECOND LIFE; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 77950563730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1566374.1566421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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