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Michael W. Macy
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 144
Citations - 17562
Michael W. Macy is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural diversity & Social media. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 138 publications receiving 15440 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael W. Macy include Brookings Institution & Johns Hopkins University.
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A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors trace the emergence of a knowledge economy, from a small group of founding members to a regional technology economy, and proffer a positive theory and explanation sketching identifying mechanisms and initial conditions in an explanation of emergence of knowledge economy.
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Estimating homophily in social networks using dyadic predictions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined three methods for estimating homophily: predicting node categories, predicting dyad categories, and a hybrid "ego-alter" approach, concluding that only the dyadic prediction approach is unbiased, whereas the node-level approach produces both high bias and high overall error.
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Method and apparatus for monitoring complex contagion and critical mass in online social media
Vladimir Barash,Christopher J. Cameron,Michael W. Macy,Clayton Fink,Aurora Schmidt,John W. Kelly +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a method for determining social contagion while monitoring social media may be executable via operation of configured processing circuitry, which may include receiving data indicative of social media activity of a plurality of users, selecting features of interest from the data, building a relationship network indicative of connections between the users and local networks to which various ones of the users belong.