The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age
Recently developed information communication technologies, particularly the Internet, have affected how we, both as individuals and as a society, create, store, and recall information. Internet also provides us with a great opportunity to study memory using transactional large scale data, in a quant...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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| author | García-Gavilanes, R Mollgaard, A Tsvetkova, M Yasseri, T |
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| description | Recently developed information communication technologies, particularly the Internet, have affected how we, both as individuals and as a society, create, store, and recall information. 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 statistical physics. In this project, we make use of online data by analysing 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 such remembering processes is larger than the primary attention flow to the current event. We are the first to report these cascading effects. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5e450202-d3dc-4ebd-8d5f-7abfaa81f9242022-03-26T17:39:33ZThe memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital ageJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5e450202-d3dc-4ebd-8d5f-7abfaa81f924Symplectic Elements at OxfordAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science2017García-Gavilanes, RMollgaard, ATsvetkova, MYasseri, TRecently developed information communication technologies, particularly the Internet, have affected how we, both as individuals and as a society, create, store, and recall information. 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 statistical physics. In this project, we make use of online data by analysing 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 such remembering processes is larger than the primary attention flow to the current event. We are the first to report these cascading effects. |
| spellingShingle | García-Gavilanes, R Mollgaard, A Tsvetkova, M Yasseri, T The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age |
| title | The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age |
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