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Gossip Empirical Propagation
abstract
Gossip, the propagation of information through social contact, exhibits structures and dynamics unlike those of more easily studied social networks wich as online communities. Thus, we attempted to construct a map of the dynamics of propagation of gossip by tracing the flow of information about one singe event through participants in the CSSS. Attendees were questioned regarding their gossip around one event - the serendipitous injury of one of the project team members - and the results were collated into a social graph. The results is a distinctive topology...
A separate project spun off from Gossip Theory.