Finding Cultural Holes: How Structure and Culture Diverge in Networks of Scholarly Communication

Divergent interests, expertise, and language form cultural barriers to communication. No formalism has been available to characterize these “cultural holes.” Here we use information theory to measure cultural holes and demonstrate our formalism in the context of scientific communication using papers...

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Main Authors: Daril A. Vilhena, Jacob G. Foster, Martin Rosvall, Jevin D. West, James Evans, Carl T. Bergstrom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2014-06-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/download/volume%201/june/finding-cultural-holes.pdf