{"id":653,"date":"2013-02-27T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/?p=653"},"modified":"2013-02-27T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:19:13","slug":"march-1-paulo-goes-to-present-on-popularity-effect-in-user-generated-contents-evidence-from-online-product-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/march-1-paulo-goes-to-present-on-popularity-effect-in-user-generated-contents-evidence-from-online-product-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"March 1: Paulo Goes to present on \u201cPopularity Effect\u201d in User-Generated Contents: Evidence from Online Product Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Goes<br \/>\nProfessor and Chair, MIS<br \/>\nUniversity of Arizona<\/p>\n<p>March 1, 2013<br \/>\nSpeakman Hall 200, 11:15am \u2013 1245am<br \/>\nSeminar Title : \u00a0\u201cPopularity Effect\u201d in User-Generated Contents: Evidence from Online Product Reviews<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<br \/>\n<\/strong>Online product reviews are increasingly important for consumer decisions, yet we still know little about how reviews are generated in the first place. In an effort to gather more reviews, many websites encourage user interactions such as allowing one user to subscribe to another. Do these interactions actually facilitate the generation of product reviews, and more important, what kind of reviews do such interactions induce? We study these questions using data from epinions.com, one of the largest product review websites where users can subscribe to one another. By applying both panel data and flexible matching methods, we find that as users become more popular, they produce more reviews and more objective reviews; however, their numeric ratings systematically change, and become more negative and more varied. Such tradeoff has not been previously documented, and has important implications for not just product review websites, but user-generated content sites as well.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/files\/2013\/02\/Goes-Lin-Yeung.pdf\">click here<\/a>\u00a0for a copy of the paper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Goes Professor and Chair, MIS University of Arizona March 1, 2013 Speakman Hall 200, 11:15am \u2013 1245am Seminar Title : \u00a0\u201cPopularity Effect\u201d in User-Generated Contents: Evidence from Online Product Reviews Abstract Online product reviews are increasingly important for consumer decisions, yet we still know little about how reviews are generated in the first place. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[384479,384478],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-paulo-goes","tag-univ-of-arizona","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}