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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140103688
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Understanding online attention and user-generated content creation: An information consumption and production perspective. There is a strong practical need for methods for understanding and measuring online behaviour. In this project, economic index number theory will be used to study information consumption, leading to new ways of measuring online attention and influence. Techniques for studying scaling relationships in the physical world will be used to study information production, leading to new insights into the efficiency of production of user-generated content. The project will contribute to understanding how social media such as Twitter contribute to social unrest and affect consumer decisions, and how distributed online collaboration can produce economically-valuable information resources such as Wikipedia.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2014
End Date: 06-2017
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $225,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Applied Economics not elsewhere classified | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Sociological Methodology and Research Methods | Applied Economics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Expanding Knowledge in Economics | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences |
