Social Contagion, Information Cascades, Diffusion of Innovations, Etc.

08 Jan 2012 19:01

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)

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]