Title
Accounting for Taste: Ranking Curators and Content in Social Networks.
Abstract
Ranking users in social networks is a well-studied problem, typically solved by algorithms that leverage network structure to identify influential users and recommend people to follow. In the last decade, however, curation --- users sharing and promoting content in a network --- has become a central social activity, as platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and GitHub drive growth and engagement by connecting users through content and content to users. While existing algorithms reward users that are highly active with higher rankings, they fail to account for users' curatorial taste. This paper introduces CuRank, an algorithm for ranking users and content in social networks by explicitly modeling three characteristics of a good curator: discerning taste, high activity, and timeliness. We evaluate CuRank on datasets from two popular social networks --- GitHub and Vine --- and demonstrate its efficacy at ranking content and identifying good curators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2858036.2858219
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social networks, Curation, Content, Ranking
World Wide Web,Leverage (finance),Social network,Ranking,Computer science,Social activity,Network structure
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3362-7
2
0.42
References 
Authors
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haizi Yu164.07
Biplab Deka2875.42
Jerry O. Talton327613.22
Ranjitha Kumar431319.54