Quantifying information overload in social media and its impact on social contagions

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 170-179

  Gomez Rodriguez, Manuel ^a   Gummadi, Krishna P ^a   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; QUEUEING THEORY;

COGNITIVE ABILITY; INFORMATION OVERLOADING; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROCESS INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; QUEUEING POLICIES; TIME-STAMPED DATA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84909948109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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