Ask HN: Idea Propagation through Social Networks?

Re:Ask HN: Idea Propagation through Social Networks? by mindcrime on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:02PM (#23971587)

The closest thing I'm aware of is the work on "diffusion of innovations".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

If you look at this stuff, and you're familiar with the Crossing the Chasm idea, you may be struck immediately by the similarity of some of the charts. There was definitely some influence by the former, on the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

Also, there is an interdisciplinary field called "Network Science" that heavily builds on graph theory, but includes elements from sociology, economics, complex adaptive systems, statistical mechanics, etc, yadda yadda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_science

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Propagation through Social Networks? by rajansaini on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:06PM (#23971611)

Oooh very interesting, thanks! From what I've skimmed, it's so surprising how well his ideas transfer over to the present era!

Edit: Did not read the second half of your comment, absolutely!!

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Propagation through Social Networks? by mindcrime on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:09PM (#23971626)

Edit: Did not read the second half of your comment, absolutely!!

I've been editing stuff in kinda piecemeal. :-)

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