Wikipedia Articles on Plane Crashes Show What We Remember - Or Forget (IMAGE)

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Wikipedia Articles on Plane Crashes Show What We Remember - Or Forget

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View flow from Wikipedia articles on a recent 'source' event (the March 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 crash) to a past 'target' event (the November 2001 American Airlines Flight 587 crash). The graph shows that in the days following the 2015 crash, viewership spiked for the 2001 crash article.

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Taha Yasseri, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 2017.

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