Speaker
Pedro Duarte
(LIP | Social Physics and Complexity (SPAC))
Description
In social media platforms, such as Twitter, short messages (tweets) can be copied (re-tweeted) several times giving rise to long cascades. These cascades are not evenly distributed. In fact, they have been shown to have a power-law tail, whereby there are a few, very large cascades, while the majority of tweets are not retweeted at all. In my master thesis, I will study the underlying network structure that gives rise to these dynamics.
Author
Pedro Duarte
(LIP | Social Physics and Complexity (SPAC))
