Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations

Author: Thomas W. Valente
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1881303225

Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations (Quantitative Methods in Communication Subseries)

This text presents a key to understanding how ideas, products and opinions "take off" and spread throughout society - referred to as the diffusion of innovation - and provides a means to estimate how fast or slow that spread occurs. Get Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations computer books for free.
The diffusion of innovations occurs among individuals in a social system, and the pattern of communications among these individuals is a social network. The network determines how quickly innovations diffuse and the timing of each individual's adoption. The book thus analyses how social networks structure the diffusion of innovation. Chapter 1 reviews the diffusion of innovation theory, network analysis, and the datasets used as examples. Chapter 2 reviews prior research conducted on threshold and critical mass models. Check Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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The diffusion of innovations occurs among individuals in a social system, and the pattern of communications among these individuals is a social network. The network determines how quickly innovations diffuse and the timing of each individual's adoption. The book thus analyses how social networks structure the diffusion of innovation. Chapter 1 reviews the diffusion of innovation theory, network analysis, and the datasets used as examples

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