Center of Attention: How Facebook Users Allocate Attention Across Friends

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 34-41

  Backstrom, Lars ^a   Bakshy, Eytan ^a,b   Kleinberg, Jon ^c   Lento, Thomas M ^a   Rosenn, Itamar ^a  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACTIVITY-BASED; FACEBOOK; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; INTERACTION PATTERN; NETWORK-BASED; NUMBER OF CONTACTS; PERSONAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL CONTACTS; STABLE PROPERTY; WORKERS';

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84902285571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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