Social Attention

Bernardo A. Huberman (HP Labs) tackles the topic of Social Attention.  In the age of the web and with the ubiquity of social networks, the scarce – and valuable – resource is attention…attention not as an individual psychological mechanism, but as a social phenomenon measured by the intensity of signals that relate to a particular idea, theory, product, research program, movie, book, etc.

Questions :

How do social networks mediate attention? How does attention relate to the amount and intensity of information available? What is the role that novelty and popularity play in eliciting attention?

Deriving Value from Consumer Networks

Shawndra Hill (Professor, Operations & Information Management, The Wharton School) discusses “Deriving Value from Consumer Networks” at Supernova 2008, and presents joint work with Bob Bell, Deepak Agarwal, Foster Provost, and Chris Volinsky.

Openness and Value Creation

Elliot Maxwell (Fellow, Communications Program, Johns Hopkins Univ.) discusses “Openness and Value Creation” at Supernova2008.