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, […]