The Diffusion of Social Movements and Economic Decisions
The concept of diffusion can explain the behavior of networks in response to many new ideas ranging from social trends, such as trying the new dance on Tik-Tok, and economic trends in purchasing new products, to political decisions like voting. In light of this unprecedented year filled with the nationwide BLM movement, a monumental bull […]
Diffusion of BTS
The Korean Wave (‘hallyu’ in Korean), symbolizing the rapid growth of the Korean entertainment industries and other nodes of popular culture, started in 1997. Social media has played a key role in the diffusion of such popular culture internationally. The diffusion of innovations is the process in which new behaviors and ideas are introduced into […]
COVID-19 and H1N1
When faced with the ever mounting death toll of COVID-19, it can be rather easy to feel like the world might be ending. I in no way mean to downplay the monumental tragedy this pandemic has been and continues to be, but as “anti-mask” and “anti-lockdown” sentiments rise, it is more important now than ever […]
Estimating the Basic Reproductive Number for COVID-19 using the SIRD model
In class, we discussed two models for the spread of epidemics. One model was the branching process model, which begins with “patient zero” and then spreads through contact networks in several waves, each infected person passing the disease with a probability p to people they have been in contact with. There is also another model […]
Topic Shift in Information Cascades on Twitter
The possibility of an information cascade is at its prime when individuals make decisions sequentially, with limited access to the information that framed the decision of the link that they are being influenced by. Social media platforms create a solid foundation for information cascades with their ability to disseminate information to mass groups of people […]
Pluralistic ignorance, collective action, and a “viral” presentation
Blog 3: Diffusion in Ponzi Schemes
Diffusion, often used to denote the process of a new idea or technology being adopted within a market or social sphere, is a fascinating component of studying networks. In this course, we particularly focused on the adoption of technologies such as Social Networks, where the value of the product continues to increase with adoption, […]
Canada vs. US: COVID-19 Performance
Throughout the course of the spread of COVID-19 Canada has produced lower statistics for the number of cases and deaths than the US. The goal of this blog is to investigate the potential differences that have led to Canada controlling the pandemic better than its close neighbor based on the metric of “new daily cases”. […]
Tik Tok’s Success Due to Diffusion in Social Networks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/01/31/tiktok-why-the-enormous-success/?sh=28dd50e465d1 https://medium.com/@kaichenshen/tik-tok-is-surging-social-network-ecology-the-brand-new-interaction-among-the-00s-generations-e7bfa572e829 Tik Tok is an app that has taken over our new generation. Through viral marketing, Tik Tok has made its way to the phone screens of millions of young people around the world. Through the app, people of all ages are able to show their creativity through short video clips that they can […]
The emergence diffusion of Waze
https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-digit/submission/waze-using-network-effects-to-improve-your-gps-system/ Waze is a well known GPS navigation software application that has gained large amounts of popularity over the last 5 years. Waze collects data from users of the application to provide quicker, faster and safer routes for other users. This occurs in the form of either automatic collection through the speed of the […]
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