The structure of online diffusion networks

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 623-638

  Goel, Sharad ^a   Watts, Duncan J ^a   Goldstein, Daniel G ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

computational social science; contagion; diffusion; social networks

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION PROCESS; COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; CONTAGION; DIFFUSION NETWORKS; DIFFUSION PATTERNS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROBLOGGING; NETWORKED GAMES; NEW PRODUCT; ONLINE DOMAINS; SIMILAR PATTERN; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TREE STRUCTURES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DIFFUSION;

EID: 84863518435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2229012.2229058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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