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