Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Accelerating dynamics of collective attention

  • Philipp Lorenz-Spreen,
  • Bjarke Mørch Mønsted,
  • Philipp Hövel,
  • Sune Lehmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09311-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The impacts of technological development on social sphere lack strong empirical foundation. Here the authors presented quantitative analysis of the phenomenon of social acceleration across a range of digital datasets and found that interest appears in bursts that dissipate on decreasing timescales and occur with increasing frequency.