How long does it take a society to learn a new term?
Physics and Society
2008-07-29 v1
Abstract
In this paper, I study the diffusion of new terms, called neologism, in social networks. I consider it as an example of information dynamics on networks and I hope that solving this problem can help us to understand and describe the information dynamics problem. To do so I develop a phenomenological model for the diffusion mechanism. I find an analytical relationship between number of people in the society who has learned the term and time taken. The Network parameters are imported in this analytical solution. I also present some simulation for this mechanism for several sample and some real networks which confirms the analytical results. In addition, I study the effects of network topology on diffusion process.
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@article{arxiv.0807.4378,
title = {How long does it take a society to learn a new term?},
author = {Sadegh Raeisi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4378},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
6 pages, 7 figures