Information Dynamics in the Networked World

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.

Chapter submitted to "Complex Networks", Eli Ben-Naim, Hans Frauenfelder, Zoltan Toroczkai, eds. 29 pages, 17 figures. Submitted a minor revision (typos, re-wording, clarification) on Oct. 13, 2003

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• The structure and function of complex networks
• Information Flow in Social Groups
• Topology and correlations in structured scale-free networks
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