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Information cascade; Information diffusion; Information spread; Innovation diffusion
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SocialFootnote 1 influence is the study of individuals being affected by their peers. The subject studies how one’s ideas, beliefs, or characteristics are influenced and formed by their family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, etc. These influences in a large scale lead to so called information diffusion (aka information cascade) that explores the reactions of network entities against new objects and ideas as a result of the social influence they receive from their peers. The topic has been a popular subject of study in different fields including psychology, sociology, economics, and computer science.
Information diffusion explores how and to what extent a new object, called innovation, diffuses through societies. Innovations are ideas, information, products, behaviors, cultures, emotions, viruses, or other objects that are “perceived as new by an individual or other unit of...
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Eftekhar, M. (2018). Social Influence. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80694
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