Depression Contagion and Network Charactersitics
There is a multitude of empirical evidence supporting the existence of “depression contagion,” a phenomenon in which individuals who have friends with high levels of depressive symptoms are more likely to become depressed. One potential mechanism for depression contagion was elucidated by examining the population with the highest risk: adolescent females. Adolescent female friendships exhibit […]
Indirect Interactions: Cryptic Connections and the White-Nose Syndrome Epidemic
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-cryptic-disease-transmission-epidemics.html In this article, researchers studying the spread of white-nose syndrome in bats have found a way to track “cryptic connections,” or indirect interactions between bats in different social groupings. By dusting some of the bats with fluorescent powder (with different colors for different bats), they could see where the powder stuck on surfaces […]
Predicting Information Cascades, and its Implications
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/viral-photo-cascade-040314.html This Stanford news article first caught my eye as I was looking through some of Prof. Jon Kleinberg’s research articles and web-mentions. The article summarizes how Facebook researchers, a doctoral student form Stanford and professors from both Cornell and Stanford came together to analyze the “sharing” phenomenon on the social media platform called Facebook. […]
How understanding Cascading Networks will help you survive a panicked mob
Large panicked mobs are known for being dangerous and even deadly, but a basic understanding of the cascading will allow you to decrease your chances of injury or death. A mob is basically a large physical network of people who are connected by being near one another. A mob can be created after a commotion […]
Spreading False News Online
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 In The Spread of True and False News Online by Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral, the authors discuss the trend that leads different types of news to become viral in the current media climate of “fake news.” By using a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017, the […]
Midterm Elections Ads and Cascades: Getting People to Vote
The low participation of US citizens, and more problematically the younger generation, has led advertisers to reach out to use all social media and general media platforms to advertise and encourage voting for the midterm elections. Primarily, these elections were focused on advertising and spreading the news through the television, but with the shift in […]
Dolce & Gabbana
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/business/dg-in-china-intl/index.html This article covers the recent controversy regarding Dolce & Gabbana’s ad. To promote for their upcoming (now cancelled) show in Shanghai, Dolce & Gabbana had made a series of videos for their Instagram account where in each video there is a Chinese model attempting to eat Italian foods with chopsticks. While the concept […]
Using Networks to track Ebola
After the lecture on epidemics I was interested in looking into how real life public health experts might use the concepts we learned about in class to map the spread of epidemics. Ebola is an epidemic that has come into the news a lot with its major 2015 breakout and the smaller, more recent one. […]
The Diffusion of JUUL Among Teens
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/style/the-juul-is-too-cool.html [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/health/juul-fda-vaping-ecigarettes.html In recent news, the Food and Drug Administration has declared that teenage use of e-cigs (electronic cigarettes) has reached “an epidemic proportion” and has cracked down on teen advertisement, flavored ‘pod’ production, and sales to minors. In particular, the FDA has been targeting the JUUL, a sleek e-cigarette that looks like […]
Game Theory Even Playing Roles in Judicial Situations
Although we do not accurately calculate each individual’s payoff whenever we make choices, the concept of game theory can be applied to our everyday lives. For the cases covered during the class, we determined the best strategy under the certain circumstance. In reality, however, we have to make a series of choices to ultimately reach […]
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