Information Cascades on Twitter related to Crisis Warnings
In a paper written by Cindy Hui at Rutgers University along with three other researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (William Wallace, Malik Magdon-Ismail, and Mark Goldberg), they researched information cascades on Twitter related to disaster/crisis warnings, specifically an example of tweets responding to an armed robbery near the RPI campus in 2010. Their conclusions were […]
Matching Markets ft Discrimination
In class, we have learned much in depth material on matching markets, Nash equilibrium and VCG. The examples we have learned about, however, are not always as simple or as isolated as they have been (in an effort to teach such foundational principles). These examples have been isolated from real-life scenarios that alter matching markets […]
Information Cascade and Rumor Diffusion
This article examines how emotions influence the spread of Rumor online via social media using the concept of information cascade. The research specifically focuses on Twitter and analyzes a representative sample of Twitter rumors with their corresponding cascades. The paper hypothesized that “emotions embedded in online rumors are associated with the size, lifetime, and structural […]
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