This research considers how marketers can encourage or “nudge” consumers to transmit
word of mouth (WOM), such as referrals or recommendations to friends, in a manner that …

Massively parallel collaboration and emergent knowledge generation is described through a
large scale survey for archaeological anomalies within ultra-high resolution earth-sensing …

Large-scale mobilization of individuals across social networks is becoming increasingly
prevalent in society. However, little is known about what affects the speed of social …

The Internet has unleashed the capacity for planetary-scale collective problem solving (also
known as crowdsourcing), with ever increasing successful examples. A key hypothesis …

The digital exhaust left by flows of physical and digital commodities provides a rich measure
of the nature, strength and significance of relationships between countries in the global …

Social mobilization is a process that enlists a large number of people to achieve a goal
within a limited time, especially through the use of social media. There is increasing interest …

Social media and web technologies have become a prominent source of data for
researchers interested in the analysis of social interactions and communication dynamics …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, political polarization has emerged as a significant threat
that inhibits coordinated action of central and local institutions reducing the efficacy of non …

The general idea of the AMBER/Child Alert System is that by broadcasting and distributing
information about a missing child to the community, the public's involvement can trigger …

Collective search for people and information has tremendously benefited from emerging
communication technologies that leverage the wisdom of the crowds, and has been …