Power law signature of media exposure in human response waiting time distributions
We study the humanitarian response to the destruction brought by the tsunami generated by the Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004, as measured by donations, and find that it decays in time as a power law ∼1/tα with α=2.5±0.1. This behavior is suggested to be the rare outcome of a priority queuin...
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| author | Crane, Riley Schweitzer, Frank Sornette, Didier |
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| description | We study the humanitarian response to the destruction brought by the tsunami generated by the Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004, as measured by donations, and find that it decays in time as a power law ∼1/tα with α=2.5±0.1. This behavior is suggested to be the rare outcome of a priority queuing process in which individuals execute tasks at a rate slightly faster than the rate at which new tasks arise. We believe this to be an empirical evidence documenting the recently predicted [G. Grinstein and R. Linsker, Phys. Rev. E 77, 012101 (2008)] regime, and provide additional independent evidence that suggests that this “highly attentive regime” arises as a result of the intense focus placed on this donation “task” by the media. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/586032022-10-01T21:51:31Z Power law signature of media exposure in human response waiting time distributions Crane, Riley Schweitzer, Frank Sornette, Didier Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Crane, Riley Crane, Riley We study the humanitarian response to the destruction brought by the tsunami generated by the Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004, as measured by donations, and find that it decays in time as a power law ∼1/tα with α=2.5±0.1. This behavior is suggested to be the rare outcome of a priority queuing process in which individuals execute tasks at a rate slightly faster than the rate at which new tasks arise. We believe this to be an empirical evidence documenting the recently predicted [G. Grinstein and R. Linsker, Phys. Rev. E 77, 012101 (2008)] regime, and provide additional independent evidence that suggests that this “highly attentive regime” arises as a result of the intense focus placed on this donation “task” by the media. 2010-09-20T18:37:37Z 2010-09-20T18:37:37Z 2010-05 2010-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1539-3755 1550-2376 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58603 Crane, Riley, Frank Schweitzer, and Didier Sornette. "Power law signature of media exposure in human response waiting time distributions." Physical Review E 81.5 (2010): 056101. © 2010 The American Physical Society en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.81.056101 Physical Review E Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
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