Evidence of online performance deterioration in user sessions on Reddit

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Singer, Philipp ^a,b   Ferrara, Emilio ^c   Kooti, Farshad ^c   Strohmaier, Markus ^a,b   Lerman, Kristina ^c  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DETERIORATION; HUMAN; MODEL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; COGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COOPERATION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84990068239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161636     Document Type: Article

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