Nematzadeh et al., "Information overload in group communication: from conversation to cacophony in the Twitch chat" (2019)

2019-10-09 → 2026-08-14

Azadeh Nematzadeh, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Alessandro Flammini, Royal Society Open Science 6(10), 191412 (2019)
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@article{nematzadeh2019overload,
    author = {Azadeh Nematzadeh and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Alessandro Flammini},
    title = {Information overload in group communication: from conversation to cacophony in the Twitch chat},
    journal = {Royal Society Open Science},
    volume = {6},
    number = {10},
    pages = {191412},
    doi = {10.1098/rsos.191412},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {1610.06497},
    primaryClass = {cs.SI},
    year = {2019},
}

Analyzes Twitch chat logs across different information loads. As participation grows, group communication shifts from conversation toward cacophony, with lower per-capita participation, more repetition, and less information per message.

Information overload, Conversation, Twitch

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