Aligning popularity and quality in online cultural markets

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 398-407

  Van Hentenryck, Pascal ^a   Abeliuk, Andrés ^b   Berbeglia, Franco ^c   Maldonado, Felipe ^d   Berbeglia, Gerardo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ASYMPTOTICALLY OPTIMAL; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; MARKET EFFICIENCY; MARKET PARTICIPANTS; NEWS ARTICLES; QUALITY RANKING; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84979642596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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