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Impact of heterogeneity and socioeconomic factors on individual behavior in decentralized sharing ecosystems

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    Identificador:  imarina:9298194
    Autors:  Gavalda-Miralles, Arnau; Choffnes, David R; Otto, John S; Sanchez, Mario A; Bustamante, Fabian E; Amaral, Luis A N; Duch, Jordi; Guimera, Roger
    Resum:
    Tens of millions of individuals around the world use decentralized content distribution systems, a fact of growing social, economic, and technological importance. These sharing systems are poorly understood because, unlike in other technosocial systems, it is difficult to gather large-scale data about user behavior. Here, we investigate user activity patterns and the socioeconomic factors that could explain the behavior. Our analysis reveals that (i) the ecosystem is heterogeneous at several levels: content types are heterogeneous, users specialize in a few content types, and countries are heterogeneous in user profiles; and (ii) there is a strong correlation between socioeconomic indicators of a country and users behavior. Our findings open a research area on the dynamics of decentralized sharing ecosystems and the socioeconomic factors affecting them, and may have implications for the design of algorithms and for policymaking.
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    Enllaç font original: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1309389111
    Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Gavalda-Miralles, Arnau; Choffnes, David R; Otto, John S; Sanchez, Mario A; Bustamante, Fabian E; Amaral, Luis A N; Duch, Jordi; Guimera, Roger (2014). Impact of heterogeneity and socioeconomic factors on individual behavior in decentralized sharing ecosystems. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, 111(43), 15322-15327. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309389111
    Referència a l'article segons font original: Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America. 111 (43): 15322-15327
    DOI de l'article: 10.1073/pnas.1309389111
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2014
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Data d'alta del registre: 2024-10-26
    Autor/s de la URV: Duch Gavaldà, Jordi / Guimera Manrique, Roger
    Departament: Enginyeria Química
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications
    Autor segons l'article: Gavalda-Miralles, Arnau; Choffnes, David R; Otto, John S; Sanchez, Mario A; Bustamante, Fabian E; Amaral, Luis A N; Duch, Jordi; Guimera, Roger
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Àrees temàtiques: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros, Saúde coletiva, Química, Psicología, Odontología, Multidisciplinary sciences, Multidisciplinary, Medicina veterinaria, Medicina iii, Medicina ii, Medicina i, Matemática / probabilidade e estatística, Interdisciplinar, Geografía, Geociências, General o multidisciplinar, Farmacia, Engenharias iv, Engenharias iii, Engenharias ii, Engenharias i, Educação física, Ciencias sociales, Ciências biológicas iii, Ciências biológicas ii, Ciências biológicas i, Ciências ambientais, Ciências agrárias i, Ciência da computação, Biotecnología, Biodiversidade, Astronomia / física, Antropologia / arqueologia, Anthropology
    Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: roger.guimera@urv.cat, jordi.duch@urv.cat
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    Software piracy
    Socioeconomic factors
    Privacy
    Politics
    Movie piracy
    Internet
    Humans
    Human activity
    Ecosystem
    Cooperative behavior
    Content sharing
    Bittorrent
    Behavior
    Multidisciplinary
    Multidisciplinary Sciences
    Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros
    Saúde coletiva
    Química
    Psicología
    Odontología
    Medicina veterinaria
    Medicina iii
    Medicina ii
    Medicina i
    Matemática / probabilidade e estatística
    Interdisciplinar
    Geografía
    Geociências
    General o multidisciplinar
    Farmacia
    Engenharias iv
    Engenharias iii
    Engenharias ii
    Engenharias i
    Educação física
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciências biológicas iii
    Ciências biológicas ii
    Ciências biológicas i
    Ciências ambientais
    Ciências agrárias i
    Ciência da computação
    Biotecnología
    Biodiversidade
    Astronomia / física
    Antropologia / arqueologia
    Anthropology
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