TY  - JOUR
ID  - eprints2553
TI  - The economy of attention in the age of (mis)information
AV  - public
KW  - Misinformation; Attention patterns; Rumor spreading
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40493-014-0012-y
IS  - 12
VL  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Springer
A1  - Bessi, Alessandro
A1  - Scala, Antonio
A1  - Rossi, Luc
A1  - Zhang, Qian
A1  - Quattrociocchi, Walter
SP  - 1
JF  - Journal of Trust Management
N2  - In this work we present a thorough quantitative analysis of information consumption patterns of qualitatively different information on Facebook. Pages are categorized, according to their topics and the communities of interests they pertain to, in a) alternative information sources (diffusing topics that are neglected by science and main stream media); b) online political activism; and c) main stream media. We find similar information consumption patterns despite the very different nature of contents. Then, we classify users according to their interaction patterns among the different topics and measure how they responded to the injection of 2788 false information (parodistic imitations of alternative stories). We find that users prominently interacting with alternative information sources ? i.e. more exposed to unsubstantiated claims ? are more prone to interact with intentional and parodistic false claims
SN  - 2196-064X
Y1  - 2014/12//
ER  -