The propagations of diseases, behaviors and information in real systems are rarely
independent of each other, but they are coevolving with strong interactions. To uncover 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 …

Recent psychological studies indicate that individuals exhibiting suicidal ideation
increasingly turn to social media rather than mental health practitioners. Personally …

The process by which new communities emerge is a central research issue in the social
sciences. While a growing body of research analyzes the formation of a single community by …

Incidents of violence perpetrated through digital technology platforms or facilitated by these
means have been reported, often in high-income countries. Very little scholarly attention has …

This article aims to critically discuss the use of Twitter accounts by the youth-based
environmental organization Backsilmove in Bandung, West Java, to affirm their political …

In this paper, we empirically test whether the spread of political symbols in Twitter is due to
complex contagion. We analyzed behavior consisting of editing the Twitter account name to …

Social contagion is the mechanism by which ideas and behaviors spread across human
social networks. Simple contagion models approximate the likelihood of adoption as …

Social media platforms provide people all over the world with an unprecedented ability to
organize around social and political causes. However, these same platforms enable …

In Nigeria, the growth in mobile phone use has provided the opportunity for increased
access to the internet, and through this, the social media. The social media in turn offers …