sábado, 22 de marzo de 2008

Understanding collective behavior

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"Individuals can have a certain opinion on certain topics, and we can allow individuals to interact across a social network, and of course the social network's topology is partly defined by what opinions you have. You tend to interact more often with people who have similar opinions to yourself because you are more likely to meet them in your sphere of life. But interacting with people can change your opinions, which can then change your social network, which can change your opinions, so again we have this recursive feedback. And so we are using it to explore these types of properties? I am sure that these types of principles also would apply to understanding dynamics on the Web."
Edge 240: By Iain Couzin

2 comentarios:

Antón Abad dijo...

Es absolutamente cierto; dime entre quienes te mueves y te diré qué piensas.
Tengo la fortuna de haber conocido diferentes estratos sociales; pero si soy un anacoreta, no es por haber huido de ellos, y confinarme lejos de lo que me desagrada; en realidad, en todos los sitios en los que he estado, siempre me guardé unas horas al día para estar conmigo. No es narcisismo, es darle también espacio a lo que soy, sin interferencia de ningún tipo.

Elvira dijo...

Muy interesante.