Author, as appears in the article.: Gavalda-Miralles, Arnau; Choffnes, David R; Otto, John S; Sanchez, Mario A; Bustamante, Fabian E; Amaral, Luis A N; Duch, Jordi; Guimera, Roger
Department: Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: Duch Gavaldà, Jordi / Guimera Manrique, Roger
Keywords: Software piracy Socioeconomic factors Privacy Politics Movie piracy Internet Humans Human activity Ecosystem Cooperative behavior Content sharing Bittorrent Behavior internet human activity content sharing bittorrent
Abstract: 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.
Thematic Areas: 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
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: roger.guimera@urv.cat jordi.duch@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3597-4310 0000-0003-2639-6333
Record's date: 2024-10-26
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1309389111
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America. 111 (43): 15322-15327
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
Article's DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309389111
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2014
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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