Hi all, Just a quick reminder that this month's research showcase on *Reader Attention and Curiosity* will be starting in about an hour. Please join us at https://www.youtube.com/live/gvF8p4r91NE.
Best, Kinneret On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM Kinneret Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It's a new year and we have some fascinating research showcases lined up! > The first one will be live-streamed next Wednesday, January 22, at 9:30 AM > PT / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here > <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1737567000>. The theme for this showcase > is *Reader Attention and Curiosity*. > > You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream: > https://www.youtube.com/live/gvF8p4r91NE. As always, you can join the > conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live. > > This month's presentations: > Collective Attention Across Wikipedia and the WebBy *Patrick Gildersleve, > University of Exeter*Wikipedia, as one of the most popular websites > globally, serves as an important indicator of collective attention online. > Readers of news and social media often turn to Wikipedia as a secondary > resource for supporting or clarifying information, and this is reflected in > the patterns of page views and edits on the online encyclopaedia. Wikipedia > is also not just a vast repository of information; it is a network of > interconnected articles that exists within the broader ecosystem of the > World Wide Web. To fully comprehend the dynamics of online popularity, we > must study how individuals navigate between articles and how external > platforms drive traffic to Wikipedia, not just Wikipedia articles (or > alternative online records) in isolation. In this talk, I will review > research on how major news events spark networked surges of collective > attention to Wikipedia articles, how Twitter users both navigate and > contribute to Wikipedia in response to viral social media content, and how > we can combine data from Reddit and Wikipedia to study patterns of > attention towards current events, influxes of traffic from social media > towards Wikipedia, and the use of Wikipedia in discussions on social > media.Architectural > styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readershipBy *Dale > Zhou, University of California, Irvine*A historico-philosophical > examination of texts over two millennia previously revealed three styles of > curiosity: the wandering “busybody”, the targeted “hunter,” and the > creative “dancer.” In this talk, I will review network signatures of these > three styles from an analysis of 482,760 readers using Wikipedia’s mobile > app in 14 languages from 50 countries or territories. By measuring the > structure of knowledge networks constructed by readers weaving a thread > through articles in Wikipedia, we expand upon prior work in the laboratory > that found evidence for distinct knowledge network architectures > constructed by each curiosity style. Moreover, we found associations, > globally, between the structure of knowledge networks and population-level > indicators of spatial navigation, education, mood, well-being, and > inequality. This presentation will describe how these findings advance our > understanding of Wikipedia’s global readership and demonstrate how cultural > and geographical properties of the digital environment relate to different > styles of curiosity. > > -- > > Kinneret Gordon > > Lead Research Community Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
