Datum održavanja: petak, 30.11.2018. u 12:00 sati, prostorija O-357
Predavač: prof. dr. sc. Boris Podobnik, Građevinski fakultet, Sveučilište u Rijeci
Naziv predavanja: What is influencing message propagation on social media?
Abstract:
Online social networks strongly impact our daily lives. An internet user (a “Netizen”) wants messages to be efficiently disseminated. The susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) dissemination model is the traditional tool for exploring the spreading mechanism of information diffusion. We here test our SIR-based dissemination model on open and real-world data collected from Twitter. We locate and identify phase transitions in the message dissemination process. We find that message content is a stronger factor than the popularity of the sender. We also find that the probability that a message will be forwarded has a threshold that affects its ability to spread, and when the probability is above the threshold the message quickly achieves mass dissemination.
