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Misleading newsletters can shape individuals' perceptions, and pose a threat to societies; as we witnessed by lowering the severity of follow-up stay-at-home orders and burdening a significant challenge to the fight against COVID-19. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-23 Lucila G. Alvarez-Zuzek , Lucio La Cava , Jelena Grujic , Riccardo Gallotti

In online social media systems users are not only posting, consuming, and resharing content, but also creating new and destroying existing connections in the underlying social network. While each of these two types of dynamics has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Seth A. Myers , Jure Leskovec

The burst in the use of online social networks over the last decade has provided evidence that current rumor spreading models miss some fundamental ingredients in order to reproduce how information is disseminated. In particular, recent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-02 Javier Borge-Holthoefer , Sandro Meloni , Bruno Gonçalves , Yamir Moreno

Background: Code review, the discussion around a code change among humans, forms a communication network that enables its participants to exchange and spread information. Although reported by qualitative studies, our understanding of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Michael Dorner , Daniel Mendez , Krzysztof Wnuk , Ehsan Zabardast , Jacek Czerwonka

The question that how cultural variation emerges has drawn lots of interest in sociological inquiry. Sociologists predominantly study such variation through the lens of social contagion, which mostly attributes cultural variation to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Heng-Chien Liou , Hsuan-Wei Lee

Social networks affect the diffusion of information, and thus have the potential to reduce or amplify inequality in access to opportunity. We show empirically that social networks often exhibit a much larger potential for unequal diffusion…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-21 Eaman Jahani , Dean Eckles , Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

While reigning models of diffusion have privileged the structure of a given social network as the key to informational exchange, real human interactions do not appear to take place on a single graph of connections. Using data collected from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Lily Hu , Bryan Wilder , Amulya Yadav , Eric Rice , Milind Tambe

Many biological phenomena or social events critically depend on how information evolves in complex networks. However, a general theory to characterize information evolution is yet absent. Consequently, numerous unknowns remain about the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yang Tian , Guoqi Li , Pei Sun

We study the critical properties of a model of information spreading based on the SIS epidemic model. Spreading rates decay with time, as ruled by two parameters, $\epsilon$ and $l$, that can be either constant or randomly distributed in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-12 Marlon Ramos , Nuno Crokidakis , Celia Anteneodo

Epidemic spreading processes on dynamic multiplex networks provide a more accurate description of natural spreading processes than those on single layered networks. To describe the influence of different individuals in the awareness layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Minyu Feng , Xiangxi Li , Yuhan Li , Qin Li

In order to capture the effects of social ties in knowledge diffusion, this paper examines the publication network that emerges from the collaboration of researchers, using citation information as means to estimate knowledge flow. For this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Felipe Eltermann , Alan Godoy , Fernando J. Von Zuben

In this paper, we consider a random network such that there could be a link between any two nodes in the network with a certain probability (plink). Diffusion is the phenomenon of spreading information throughout the network, starting from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Natarajan Meghanathan

Social networks are of interest to researchers in part because they are thought to mediate the flow of information in communities and organizations. Here we study the temporal dynamics of communication using on-line data, including e-mail…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-06-20 Gueorgi Kossinets , Jon Kleinberg , Duncan Watts

We review three studies of information flow in social networks that help reveal their underlying social structure, how information spreads through them and why small world experiments work.

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-23 Bernardo A. Huberman , Lada A. Adamic

Researchers have attempted to model information diffusion and topic trends and lifecycle on online social networks. They have investigated the role of content, social connections and communities, familiarity and behavioral similarity in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Kuntal Dey , Saroj Kaushik , L. Venkata Subramaniam

We use a simple physics-inspired model to get an idea about how to enhance the speed with which a society becomes educated if we strategically place our knowledge spreading centers (teachers or educational institutions). We study knowledge…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-02 Saurish Chakrabarty

The diffusion of information and behaviors over social networks is of considerable interest in research fields ranging from sociology to computer science and application domains such as marketing, finance, human health, and national…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-12-31 Richard Colbaugh , Kristin Glass

In this letter, we investigate the detailed epidemic spreading process in scale-free networks with links' weights that denote familiarity between two individuals and find that spreading velocity reaches a peak quickly then decays in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Jie Wang , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

Compartmental models of epidemics are widely used to forecast the effects of communicable diseases such as COVID-19 and to guide policy. Although it has long been known that such processes take place on social networks, the assumption of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-14 Samuel Johnson

In this report there will be a discussion for Information Diffusion. There will be discussions on what information diffusion is, its key characteristics and on several other aspects of these kinds of networks. This report will focus on peer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jonathan Helmigh