Competing for attention in social media under information overload conditions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Feng, Ling ^a,b   Hu, Yanqing ^c,d   Li, Baowen ^a,e   Stanley, H Eugene ^f   Havlin, Shlomo ^g   Braunstein, Lidia A ^h  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f USA   (United States)

^g BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHINA; DIFFUSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; LIFESPAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHASE TRANSITION; SIMULATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FRIEND; INTERNET; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84940489946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126090     Document Type: Article

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