The common belief about the growing medium of livestreaming is that its value lies in its "live" component. In this paper, we leverage data from a large livestreaming platform to examine this belief. We are able to do this as this platform also allows viewers to purchase the recorded version of...

Recommender systems have been blamed for polarizing user attention and consumption. This paper examines this phenomenon by leveraging a field intervention on the largest online Q&A community in China. This platform changed its social recommender system (i.e., a system specifically targeting the...