Quantifying Social Influence in an Online Cultural Market

We revisit experimental data from an online cultural market in which 14,000 users interact to download songs, and develop a simple model that can explain seemingly complex outcomes. Our results suggest that individual behavior is characterized by a two-step process–the decision to sample and the dec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Krumme, Katherine Ann, Cebrian, Manuel, Pickard, Galen E., Pentland, Alex Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71747
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983