Accelerating dynamics of collective attention

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dc.contributor.authorLorenz-Spreen, Philipp
dc.contributor.authorMønsted, Bjarke Mørch
dc.contributor.authorHövel, Philipp
dc.contributor.authorLehmann, Sune
dc.contributor.funderDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaften
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-19T12:06:00Z
dc.date.available2019-11-19T12:06:00Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-15
dc.description.abstractWith news pushed to smart phones in real time and social media reactions spreading across the globe in seconds, the public discussion can appear accelerated and temporally fragmented. In longitudinal datasets across various domains, covering multiple decades, we find increasing gradients and shortened periods in the trajectories of how cultural items receive collective attention. Is this the inevitable conclusion of the way information is disseminated and consumed? Our findings support this hypothesis. Using a simple mathematical model of topics competing for finite collective attention, we are able to explain the empirical data remarkably well. Our modeling suggests that the accelerating ups and downs of popular content are driven by increasing production and consumption of content, resulting in a more rapid exhaustion of limited attention resources. In the interplay with competition for novelty, this causes growing turnover rates and individual topics receiving shorter intervals of collective attention.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid1759en
dc.identifier.citationLorenz-Spreen, P., Mønsted, B.M., Hövel, P. and Lehmann, S., 2019. Accelerating dynamics of collective attention. Nature communications, 10(1), (1759). DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-09311-wen
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41467-019-09311-wen
dc.identifier.eissn2041-1723
dc.identifier.endpage9en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleNature Communicationsen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9080
dc.identifier.volume10en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09311-w
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2019en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectPublic discussionen
dc.subjectDatasetsen
dc.subjectCollective attentionen
dc.titleAccelerating dynamics of collective attentionen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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