Echo Chambers and Information Diffusion in Social Media
The diffusion of information across social groups is crucial to dialogue, and to enabling information transfer and discussion to arise into productive and thoughtful dialogue of opposing views. As such, information flow via social media and other communication mediums offer the potential for enhanced dialogue through quicker communication across much larger groups of people than […]
Financial Market Herd Behavior in Response to Obfuscation
With the increasingly information-driven speculative financial market in the 21st century, the underinformed and herd behaviors described in this Reuters article are quite common. Following the efforts by the US to rein in inflation through hawkish monetary policy, financial markets tumbled across the board. Upon softening inflation figures, the markets rebounded in just as dramatic […]
Imitation – More Than Just Flattery
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Oscar Wilde might have insinuated that one imitates someone else because one admires and respects that person, but there are often other underlying causes for imitation that we carry out in our everyday lives, which can involve a much wider scope than emulating the behavior of a single […]