Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
| dc.creator | Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla | |
| dc.date | 2007-10-25 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:38:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:38:38Z | |
| dc.description | This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution and understanding collective cognition. Under the first heading, I discuss some difficulties with the usual, adaptationist explanations of cultural phenomena, alternative explanations involving network diffusion effects, and some ways these could be tested using social-media data. Under the second I describe some of the ways in which social media could be used to study how the social organization of an epistemic community supports its collective cognitive performance. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, 1 figure, AAAI format, submitted to AAAI spring 2008 symposium on "Social Information Processing" | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4911 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4911 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/140802 | |
| dc.subject | Computers and Society | |
| dc.subject | Physics and Society | |
| dc.title | Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind | |
| dc.type | text |