Information Cascade on Social Media
In a cascade, the individuals involved make the same decision in a sequential order. Individuals are easily persuaded from the individuals before them to make the same decision. We have seen multiple examples of information cascades on social media, specifically with what individuals post on instagram and what individuals change their profile pictures to be. […]
Networks effect in referral programs
There are so many smart ways to increase the number of users on a particular website or app such as adds , sharing and likes, but referral programs are probably the most underestimated one. We’ve all seen it on social media, on mobile games or on trading apps like Robinhood. It simply consists of sending […]
Information Cascades and Social Media
In the study I found “Information Cascades in Social Media in Response to a Crisis: a Preliminary Model and Case Study’ by Cindy Hui et. al. they discuss how network cascades work in relation to social media and use a crisis as a way where information needs to be shared quickly. The reason why information […]
A Network of Literary Texts
[1] 500-year-old prayer roll sheds new light on Christian devotion in medieval England, Dustin Manduffie, October 25, 2021, https://www.courthousenews.com/500-year-old-prayer-roll-sheds-new-light-on-christian-devotion-in-medieval-england/ . [2] Networks, Crowds, and Markets, by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, Cambridge Press, 2010 [3] William’s Vision of Piers Plowman, William Langland, edit. Ben Byram-Wigfield, https://www.ancientgroove.co.uk/books/Piers_Plowman.pdf Dustin Manduffie of the Courthouse News Service reported on October 25 of […]
Power Law Distribution of Content Creators
In recent years, content creation has become an enormous industry. Platforms like Youtube, Twitch, OnlyFans, etc. have grown meteorically due to the growing demand for entertainment from independent creators as opposed to content produced by TV networks, record labels, and other large corporations. One of the biggest players in this space today is Twitch.tv, a […]
Kosaraju’s Algorithm, Strongly Connected Components, and Advertising
A graph is strongly connected if every vertex is reachable from every other vertex, and SCCs (Strongly Connected Components) of a graph are subgraphs that themselves are strongly connected. There actually exists an algorithm called Kosaraju’s Algorithm, created by S. Rao Kosaraju, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, that can find all strongly connected components […]
Facebook Rebrand
When it comes to social networks, none stand as tall as the industry titan Facebook. Recently, however, they’ve gone under a rebranding campaign that signals some fundamental changes to how their company works. Specifically, their parent company, who owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus, recently changed its name to Meta. However, this change has […]
Information Cascades on Public Sentiment as it relates to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8486493/ Public sentiment has always played a pivotal role in investing. Media, in all forms, has played a key role in informing the public of impeding price action of stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrencies. An extremely vivid example of this is the public panic around the lockdowns and other regulations that drastically affect price action of […]
A Cascade Model for Externalities in Sponsored Search
In class, we have learned that the value of an advertisement on a web page is affected by the location it is placed in. For example, an advertisement with a higher value tends to be placed at the most prominent and noticeable slot of a webpage, whereas an advertisement with a lower value is probably […]
An information cascade and group polarization perspective
An information cascade occurs when individuals, having observed the actions and possibly payoffs of those ahead of them, take the same action regardless of their own information signals. Informational cascades may realize only a fraction of the potential gains from aggregating the diverse information of many individuals, which helps explain some otherwise puzzling aspects of […]
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