ArticleScience advances2017
The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age.
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- Terrorist attacks sharpen the binary perception of "Us" vs. "Them".Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Poor attention: The wealth and regional gaps in event attention and coverage on Wikipedia.PloS one · 2023Article
- Collective memory: between individual systems of consciousness and social systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- A two-phase model of collective memory decay with a dynamical switching point.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Postmortem memory of public figures in news and social media.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Hurricanes and hashtags: Characterizing online collective attention for natural disasters.PloS one · 2021Article
- Collective memory for political leaders in a collaborative government system: Evidence for generation-specific reminiscence effects.Memory & cognition · 2021Article
- Maradona in our minds: The FIFA World Cup as a way to address collective memory properties.Memory & cognition · 2020Article
- The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- Collective memory shapes the organization of individual memories in the medial prefrontal cortex.Nature human behaviour · 2020Article
- How to Understand Behavioral Patterns in Big Data: The Case of Human Collective Memory.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Recently developed information communication technologies, particularly the Internet, have affected how we, both as individuals and as a society, create, store, and recall information. The Internet also provides us with a great opportunity to study memory using transactional large-scale data in a quantitative framework similar to the practice in natural sciences. We make use of online data by analyzing viewership statistics of Wikipedia articles on aircraft crashes. We study the relation between recent events and past events and particularly focus on understanding memory-triggering patterns. We devise a quantitative model that explains the flow of viewership from a current event to past events based on similarity in time, geography, topic, and the hyperlink structure of Wikipedia articles. We show that, on average, the secondary flow of attention to past events generated by these remembering processes is larger than the primary attention flow to the current event. We report these previously unknown cascading effects.
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