Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Patterns of Human Synchronization
Año:2016

Áreas de investigación
  • Física química y matemáticas

Datos
Descripción
Social media are transforming global communication and coordination and provide unprecedented opportunities for studying socio-technical domains. Here we study global dynamical patterns of communication on Twitter across multiple scales. In particular, we study collective activities across geographical scales, from areas smaller than one square kilometer up to the global scale. Underlying the observed patterns is both the diurnal rotation of the earth, day and night, and the synchrony required for contingency of actions between individuals. We find that urban areas show a cyclic contraction and expansion that resembles heartbeats linked to social rather than natural cycles, mainly determined by daily routines of work, rest and recreation. Different urban areas have characteristic signatures of daily collective activities, varying the shape and location of peaks and valleys of activity. We show that the differences detected are consistent with a new emergent global synchrony that couples behavior in distant regions across the world, in part due to the communication power provided by social media. Although local synchrony is the major force that shapes the collective behavior in cities, a larger-scale synchronization is beginning to occur.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
Conference on Complex Systems 2016 (CCS 2016) [http://www.ccs2016.org]
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
CDP08UPM
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
19/09/2016
Fecha fin congreso
21/09/2016
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1
Hasta la página
1
Título de las actas
Conference on Complex Systems 2016. Programme [https://schedule.ccs2016.org/pages/Session11415-1545on19thSep2016.html#abstract512]

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Participantes
  • Autor: Alfredo Morales Guzmán UPM
  • Autor: Vaibhav Vavilala New England Complex Systems Institute
  • Autor: Rosa Maria Benito Zafrilla UPM
  • Autor: Yaneer Bar-Yam New England Complex Systems Institute

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