Information Dynamics in the Networked World

Bernardo A. Huberman and Lada A. Adamic
Information Dynamics Laboratory, HP Labs

in:
Eli Ben-Naim, Hans Frauenfelder, Zoltan Toroczkai, (Eds.), 'Complex Networks', Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer, 2003.

Abstract
We review three studies of information flow in social networks that help reveal their underlying social structure, how information spreads through them and why small world experiments work.

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