“Understanding society and its contemporary challenges”

La Escuela de Negocios de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez invita a la última sesión del ciclo de seminarios académicos “Understanding society and its contemporary challenges”, organizado por el profesor Pedro Fierro.

El ciclo está especialmente pensado para el Faculty de la Escuela de Negocios, ya que busca generar discusiones científicas interesantes y ampliar sus redes de investigación.

• Martes 28/05, 13:00 horas:
  • Expone:
    • Kevin He – Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania.
  • Comenta:
    • Juan Pedro Eberhard – Profesor Asociado en Universidad Andrés Bello.
  • Lugar:
    • Presencial: Sala D-311, Campus Viña del Mar.
    • Link Teams – Seminario 28/05 (para los profesores que no se encuentren en Viña): https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZTBiOGUxOWItMjIwZS00Nzk2LWEwMDItZDljMzQyMjNjMGMy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%221493756b-9ee3-4b7e-85fb-a1a7ece5c165%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2222fb0570-d5e8-48aa-8fb2-12a133fa2340%22%7d
  • Abstract:
    • We study learning on social media with an equilibrium model of users interacting with shared news stories. Rational users arrive sequentially, observe an original story (i.e., a private signal) and a sample of predecessors’ stories in a news feed, and then decide which stories to share. The observed sample of stories depends on what predecessors share as well as the sampling algorithm generating news feeds. We focus on how often this algorithm selects more viral (i.e., widely shared) stories. Showing users viral stories can increase information aggregation, but it can also generate steady states where most shared stories are wrong. These misleading steady states self-perpetuate, as users who observe wrong stories develop wrong beliefs, and thus rationally continue to share them. Finally, we describe several consequences for platform design and robustness.

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