Paper Info
Title
Home Is Where the Up-Votes Are: Behavior Changes in Response to Feedback in Social Media.
Abstract
Recent research shows that humans are heavily influenced by online social interactions: We are more likely to perform actions which, in the past, have led to positive social feedback. We introduce a quantitative model of behavior changes in response to such feedback, drawing on inverse reinforcement learning and studies of human game playing. The model allows us to make predictions, particularly in the context of social media, about which community a user will select, and to quantify how future selections change based on the feedback a user receives. We show that our model predicts real-world changes in behavior on a dataset gathered from reddit. We also explore how this relatively simple model of individual behavior can lead to complex collective dynamics when there is a population of users, each individual learning in response to feedback and in turn providing feedback to others.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
CoRR
Population,Social media,Computer science,Dynamic decision-making,Artificial intelligence,Quantitative model,Social feedback,Game playing,Machine learning,Individual learning,Behavior change
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1406.7738
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sanmay Das102.03
Allen Lavoie200.68