Wikipedia Articles on Plane Crashes Show What We Remember -- Or Forget (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Wikipedia Articles on Plane Crashes Show What We Remember -- Or Forget (2 of 3)

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A graph demonstrating how recent airplane crashes (here Germanwings Flight 9525, TransAsia Airways Flight 235 and Trigana Air Service Flight 257) may or may not cause an increase in the viewership of Wikipedia articles about past airplane crashes. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 05 April 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. García-Gavilanes at University of Oxford in Oxford, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age.'

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

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