Quantifying Social Influence in an Online Cultural Market

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 decision to download a song. Contrary to conventional wisdom, social influence is material to the f...

Quantifying Social Influence in an Online Music Community

This paper studies two types of social influence in an online music community: observational learning influence based on aggregate consumption data, and social network influence based on music consumption by friends in social proximity. The analysis uses a variety of empirical methods, applied to highly granular user listening and “favoriting” behavior on the largest music blog aggregator site....

Assessing and Quantifying Network Effects in an Online Dating Market

We empirically examine and quantify network effects on a large online dating platform in Brazil. We exploit a natural experiment, wherein a focal platform acquired its Brazilian competitor and subsequently imported the competitor’s base of 150,000+ users over a 3-day period; a large exogenous shock to the composition of the purchasing platform. Our study context and the natural experiment provi...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

Social Influence and the Matthew Mechanism: The Case of an Artificial Cultural Market