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, Fire, Michael, Shmueli, Erez, Elovici, Yuval, Bruckstein, Alfred, Lazer, David, Pentland, Alex Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85200
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0346-2994
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3410-9587