New book details a new theory of information propagation in various communities
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 13:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try to get a quantitative handle on the nature and the consequences of different types of human social interactions. The group's focus has ranged from the very small, such as speed-dating sessions, to the very large, such as entire cities.