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Download fileCompetition-induced criticality in a model of meme popularity
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posted on 2023-01-05, 16:25 authored by James GleesonJames Gleeson, Jonathan A Ward, Kevin P. O'Sullivan, William T. LeeHeavy-tailed distributions of meme popularity occur naturally in a model of meme diffusion on social networks. Competition between multiple memes for the limited resource of user attention is identified as the mechanism that poises the system at criticality. The popularity growth of each meme is described by a critical branching process, and asymptotic analysis predicts power-law distributions of popularity with very heavy tails (exponent alpha
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PI: MARK LEISING/CLEMSON UNIVERSITY U.S. INTEGRAL USERS GROUP CHAIR SUMMARY: TO SUPPORT MY WORK AND TRAVEL AS CHAIR OF THE U.S. INTEGRAL USERS GROUP (US-IUG). ORGANIZE AND ATTEND 2 US-LUG MEETINGS AT GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER WORK WITH THE PROJECT TO EN
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Physical Review Letters;112, 048701Publisher
American Physical SocietyNote
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