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SUMMARY:Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency\, Trust\, and 
 Divisiveness - Reza Babaei
DTSTART:20190611T140000Z
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CONTACT:Adrian Weller
DESCRIPTION:A growing number of people rely on social media platforms\, su
 ch as Twitter and Facebook\, for their news and information needs\, where 
 users themselves play a role in selecting the sources from which they cons
 ume information\, overthrowing traditional journalistic gatekeeping. Since
  users can just select their information sources\, they don’t have full 
 control on the content they receive. Moreover\, it is very hard to ascerta
 in the quality\, relevance\, and credibility of information produced by so
 cial media users\, raising interesting questions like:\n(i) how efficient 
 are the users at selecting their information sources?\n(ii) how do the use
 rs perceive the truthfulness of information? and\n(iii) how does the consu
 med information impact the users and the society?\n\nWe analyze social med
 ia users’ information consumption along the three dimensions of efficien
 cy\, trust\, and divisiveness\, which I briefly describe in the talk.
LOCATION:Engineering Department\, CBL Room BE-438.
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