A generalized model of social and biological contagion.
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A model of contagion that unifies and generalizes existing models of the spread of social influences and microorganismal infections is presented, finding that epidemics inevitably die out but may be surprisingly persistent when individuals possess memory.About:
This article is published in Journal of Theoretical Biology.The article was published on 2005-02-21 and is currently open access. It has received 373 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Communicable disease transmission.read more
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Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion Formation
TL;DR: The authors examined the influence of influential individuals in the formation of public opinion and found that large cascades of influence are driven not by influential individuals but by a critical mass of easily influenced individuals.
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A measurement-driven analysis of information propagation in the flickr social network
TL;DR: Analysis of large-scale traces of information dissemination in the Flickr social network finds that even popular photos do not spread widely throughout the network, and the role of word-of-mouth exchanges between friends in the overall propagation of information in the network is questioned.
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Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning
TL;DR: The authors examines three broad classes of diffusion models, i.e., contagion, social influence, and social learning, and shows how to incorporate heterogeneity into each at a high level of generality without losing analytical tractability.
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Social Networks and the Diffusion of User-Generated Content: Evidence from YouTube
TL;DR: Using a unique data set of video information and user information collected from YouTube, it is found that social interactions are influential not only in determining which videos become successful but also on the magnitude of that impact.
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Universal Behavior in a Generalized Model of Contagion
TL;DR: A general model of contagion is introduced which, by explicitly incorporating memory of past exposures to, for example, an infectious agent, rumor, or new product, includes the main features of existing contagion models and interpolates between them.
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