The size of cities is known to play a fundamental role in social and economic life. Yet, its relation to the structure of the underlying network of human interactions has not been …
Social networks amplify inequalities by fundamental mechanisms of social tie formation such as homophily and triadic closure. These forces sharpen social segregation, which is …
Mathematical models of social contagion that incorporate networks of human interactions have become increasingly popular, however, very few approaches have tackled the …
Since the publication of “Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties” in 2007, complex contagions have been studied across an enormous variety of social domains. In …
Social influence plays an important role in human behavior and decisions. Sources of influence can be divided as external, which are independent of social context, or as …
J Ugander, L Backstrom, C Marlow… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The concept of contagion has steadily expanded from its original grounding in epidemic disease to describe a vast array of processes that spread across networks, notably social …
Recent empirical studies using large-scale data sets have validated the Granovetter hypothesis on the structure of the society in that there are strongly wired communities …
JP Onnela, J Saramäki, J Hyvönen… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Electronic databases, from phone to e-mails logs, currently provide detailed records of human communication patterns, offering novel avenues to map and explore the structure of …
Diffusion of information, behavioral patterns or innovations follows diverse pathways depending on a number of conditions, including the structure of the underlying social …