Reference to Global State and Social Contagion Dynamics

Abstract

The network-based model of social contagion has revolved around information on local interactions; its central focus has been on network topological properties shaping the local interactions and, ultimately, social contagion outcomes. We extend this approach by introducing information on the global state, or global information, into the network-based model and analyzing how it alters social contagion dynamics in six different classes of networks: a two-dimensional square lattice, small-world networks, Erdős-Rényi networks, regular random networks, Holme-Kim networks, and Barabási-Albert networks. We find that there is an optimal amount of global information that minimizes the time to reach global cascades in highly clustered networks. We also find that global information prolongs the time to hit the tipping point but substantially compresses the time to reach global cascades after then, so that the overall time to reach global cascades can even be shortened under certain conditions. Finally, we show that random links substitute for global information in regulating the social contagion dynamics.

arXiv comment14 pages, 4 figures

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