Discovering Cultural Trails in Social Media and Biases of Online Attention in Wikipedia

As a computational social science researcher, Ruth García-Gavilanes interested in understanding online footprints, utilizing/developing computational human behaviour from methods and leveraging big data. In this seminar she will present two case studies in this field: a) a study of how one’s action on Twitter (e.g., deciding when to post messages) is linked to one’s culture (e.g., country’s Pace of Life) and b) a case study of how the impact and locale play a role in the collective attention to articles in Wikipedia related to aircraft incidents and accidents (attention is measured as publication priority, maximum number of views and attention decay).