Web creates snowball effects in real life

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 18:35 in Mathematics & Economics

To understand how information spreads among people, Swedish physicists and sociologists have studied a Brazilian Web forum for discussing escorts, high-end prostitutes. The study is probably the first to demonstrate that feedback in Net-based communication impacts events in reality. This in turn has an effect on the Net.

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