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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Influence Cascades: Entropy-Based Characterization of Behavioral Influence Patterns in Social Media.

Chathurani Senevirathna, Chathika Gunaratne, William Rand, Chathura Jayalath, Ivan Garibay

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Comparing Social Media Communities using Functional Data Analysis.Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2024
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  4. Social Influence Maximization in Hypergraphs.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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5 authors.

Chathurani SenevirathnaComplex Adaptive Systems Lab, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7300-9979
Chathika GunaratneComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2508-8745
William RandPoole School of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8294-1757
Chathura JayalathComplex Adaptive Systems Lab, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2056-0211
Ivan GaribayComplex Adaptive Systems Lab, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3302-9382

Funding

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency HR001117S0018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influence cascades are typically analyzed using a single metric approach, i.e., all influence is measured using one number. However, social influence is not monolithic; different users exercise different influences in different ways, and influence is correlated with the user and content-specific attributes. One such attribute could be whether the action is an initiation of a new post, a contribution to a post, or a sharing of an existing post. In this paper, we present a novel method for tracking these influence relationships over time, which we call influence cascades, and present a visualization technique to better understand these cascades. We investigate these influence patterns within and across online social media platforms using empirical data and comparing to a scale-free network as a null model. Our results show that characteristics of influence cascades and patterns of influence are, in fact, affected by the platform and the community of the users.

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cross platformscryptocurrencycyber-vulnerabilityinfluence cascadesonline social networkstransfer entropy

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PMID33525557
PMCPMC7912022

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