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Novelty and collective attention.

Fang Wu¹, Bernardo A Huberman

¹Information Dynamics Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

|October 27, 2007

Summary

Collective attention to new information fades over time. A study of 1 million users showed novelty decays with a stretched-exponential law, indicating a natural attention span.

Area of Science:

Information Science
Network Dynamics
Sociology

Background:

Collective attention is crucial in the information age.
Understanding how attention spreads and wanes in large populations is important.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the dynamics of collective attention on a large interactive website.
To model the propagation and fading of attention to novel items.

Main Methods:

Analysis of collective attention dynamics.
Studied 1 million users of digg.com.
Developed a dynamical model with a novelty factor.

Main Results:

Collective attention dynamics were observed among 1 million users.

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Novelty decay followed a stretched-exponential law.

A natural time scale for attention fading was suggested.

Conclusions:

Novelty within groups decays predictably.
The stretched-exponential law characterizes attention fading.
A natural time scale governs the lifespan of collective attention.