We study the dynamics of information propagation in environments of low-overhead personal publishing, using a large collection of weblogs over time as our example domain. We characterize and model this collection at two levels. First, we present a macroscopic characterization of topic propagation through our corpus, formalizing the notion of long-running “chatter” topics consisting recursively of “spike” topics generated by outside world events, or more rarely, by resonances within the community. Second, we present a microscopic characterization of propagation from individual to individual, drawing on the theory of infectious diseases to model the flow. We propose, validate, and employ an algorithm to induce the underlying propagation network from a sequence of posts, and report on the results.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
SIR Model for Meme Propagation
I've been thinking about this idea for a while, and thank goodness I am not. Here is a good paper on the idea that the SIR model will work well to describe meme movements. The paper has this abstract:
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What I found interesting about the article
ReplyDeleteThat was an interesting article. I even wondered if it played a role in pre SMiSC networking studies. I do know that the program does not want a to base SMiSC on networking. They say its not sufficiently match real world results. However there are three things this article that came to my attention.
For TA1
Spikes/Stickiness in chatter show the importance of SMiSC or major memes being attention getters. This ability should be found with the area of communication type and or method of delivery. Proper synthesis of these two things should make for memes that spike and or are sticky.
For TA2
In one of our discussions me and Tony determined that a TA2 simulator needed to take into account real world news/events. This article verifies this need.
For TA3
Meme spiking show how strong and viral a meme can be. When putting together counter, deceptive or your new message the ability to spike before or after the others message is very important. While we have speculated about what a meme warfare center looks like, the spike of memes points to what meme warfare would like. Each created meme would be design to lesson or knock the opponents meme out of the chatter. We would have meme pole.