The Social Amplifier-Reaction of Human Communities to Emergencies

The Social Amplifier-Reaction of Human Communities to Emergencies

This paper develops a methodology to aggregate signals in a network regarding some hidden state of the world. We argue that focusing on edges around hubs will under certain circumstances amplify the faint signals disseminating in a network, allowing for more efficient detection of that hidden state....

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Main Authors: Altshuler, Yaniv (Contributor), Fire, Michael (Author), Shmueli, Erez (Contributor), Elovici, Yuval (Author), Bruckstein, Alfred (Author), Lazer, David (Author), Pentland, Alex Paul (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag, 2014-02-28T19:45:52Z.
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