Social Contagion, Information Cascades, Diffusion of Innovations, Etc.
08 Jan 2012 19:01
See also: Branching Processes; Collective Cognition; Epidemiology; Homophily vs. Influence; Mass Hysteria; Memes and Cultural Evolution; Multilevel Marketing; Political Decision-Making; Social Networks
- Recommended [grossly inadequate, to be filled in later]:
- Sushil Bikhchandani and David Hirshleifer and I. Welch, "A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades", Journal of Political Economy 100 (1992): 992--1026
- Christophe Chamley, Rational Herds: Economic Models of Social Learning
- Moez Draief and Laurent Massoulié, Epidemics and Rumors in Complex Networks
- Susan Lohmann
- "Information Aggregation through Costly Political Action", American Economic Review 84 (1994): 518--530
- "Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989--1991", World Politics 47 (1994): 42--101 [JSTOR]
- Greg Ver Steeg, Rumi Ghosh, Kristina Lerman, "What stops social epidemics?", arxiv:1102.1985 ["the fundamental difference between information spread and other contagion processes: despite multiple opportunities for infection within a social group, people are less likely to become spreaders of information with repeated exposure." — though I would correct "less likely" to "not more likely", as they don't show an actual decline]
- Duncan J. Watts, "A simple model of global cascades on random networks", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 99 (2002): 5766--5771 [PDF]
- H. Peyton Young, "The diffusion of innovations in social networks", in L. E. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds.), The Economy as an Evolving Complex System III (2003)
- To read:
- Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, Ali ParandehGheibi, "Spread of Misinformation in Social Networks", arxiv:0906.5007
- R. Alexander Bentley, Mark Earls and Michael J. O'Brien, I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior [Blurb]
- Jonah Berger and Gaël Le Mens, "How adoption speed affects the abandonment of cultural tastes", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 106 (2009): 8146--8150 [PDF reprint via Dr. Berger]
- Damon Centola and Michael W. Macy, "Complex Contagion and the Weakness of Long Ties", American Journal of Sociology submitted [PDF preprint via Macy]
- Yen-Sheng Chiang, "Birds of Moderately Different Feathers: Bandwagon Dynamics and the Threshold Heterogeneity of Network Neighbors", Journal of Mathematical Sociology 31 (2006): 47--69
- Peter Sheridan Dodds, Kameron Decker Harris, Joshua L. Payne, "Physical, transparent derivation of the contagion condition for spreading processes on generalized random networks", arxiv:1101.5591
- Rumi Ghosh, Kristina Lerman, "A Framework for Quantitative Analysis of Cascades on Networks", arxiv:1011.3571
- Vicenc Gomez, Hilbert J. Kappen and Andreas Kaltenbrunner, "Modeling the structure and evolution of discussion cascades", arxiv:1011.0673
- A. Grabowski and R. A. Kosinski, "Life span in online communities", Physical Review E 82 (2010): 066108 [Mostly for the promised results about rumor propagation when people enter and leave the network]
- José Luis Iribarren and Esteban Moro
- "Branching Dynamics of Viral Information Spreading", <cite>Physical Review E 84 (2011): 046116
- "Affinity Paths and information diffusion in social networks", Social Networks in press (2011)
- Rafael Lalive and M. Alejandra Cattaneo, "Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions", Review of Economics and Statistics 91 (2009): 457--477
- Marc Lelarge, "Diffusion and Cascading Behavior in Random Networks", arxiv:1012.2062
- Andrea Montanari and Amin Saberi, "The spread of innovations in social networks", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 107 (2010): 20196--20201
- Joshua L. Payne, Kameron Decker Harris, Peter Sheridan Dodds, "Exact solutions for social and biological contagion models on mixed directed and undirected, degree-correlated random networks", arxiv:1103.0056
- Kurt Weyland, Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America [Blurb]
