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Information Evolution in Social Networks
Lada A. Adamic, Thomas M. Lento, Eytan Adar, Pauling C. Ng (2016)
Presentation for INFO I-501: Introduction to Informatics; Fall 2017Jayati Dev
PhD Student – Security Informatics
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Video Credit: BI Science (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHZi-z7H4o)
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Focus of This Paper
○ Chinese Whispers
○ Studying the Dissemination and Evolution of ‘Memes’ to understand how we INTERPRET information that reaches us through social media.
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PART I
Exploring and Analyzing the Research Work
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Introducing the ‘Meme’
○ Richard Dawkins in his famous 1976 book, ‘The Selfish Gene’
○ Evolution can go beyond genetic level to behavioral level
○ ‘Meme’ is the behavioral equivalent the Gene
○ We are interested in ‘Meme’ as a cultural unit
Phenotype(Behavior)
Genotype(Information)
Meme
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The Experiment
Meme
Variant
Sub-variant
Sub-variant
Variant
Sub-variant
○ Memes propagate as variants, not necessarily isolated
○ Overall meme popularity is determined by the sum of popularity of individual variants
○ The authors took 460 million variants of thousands of textual memes on Facebook only, both copied and modified as the data set
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Characteristics of Memes
Image Courtesy: wonderwhizkids.org, genome.org, newsocialmediageek.com
Compound Effect of Mutation and Replication over several generation lead to
Evolution
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Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
○ More individuals are produced each generation that can survive
○ Variation is heritable
○ Survival of the fittest
○ New species will form when reproductive isolation occurs
○ “Variants”
○ “Variants” inherit certain properties from source
○ Most popular variants populate newsfeed
○ Each meme has its own set of variants (open to interpretation)
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Similarity between
Genes and Memes
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G E N E M E M E
Genetic Cultural
Long Time to Evolve (Millions of Years)
Short Time to Evolve(Few Years)
Blind and ‘just’ fitness function Fitness function may depend on cultural factors
Differences between Genes and Memes
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Scaling in Networks for Memes (Theory)
Growth
○ Replication Instructions
○ Depends on
○ Length○ Message Completeness○ Frequency of posting○ Individual posting habits○ marketing campaign
○ Facebook Ranking Algorithm
Preferential Attachment
○ Uneven popularity of variants (“Power Law”)
○ Depends on
○ Current affairs○ Relatability○ Source○ Type (Humor, Political satire)
○ Study of political inclinations
Reference - “Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks”, Barabasi and Albert (1999)
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Outliers/ Exception Conditions Considered
○ Promoted Memes
○ Memetics that go beyond Facebook sharing
○ Memes which encourage customization through template format
○ (Not Included in Paper, but interesting to look at) How features like ‘tagging’ and ‘sharing’ keeps memes ‘alive’ beyond their lifetime
○ BUT paper says meme evolution is time-independent
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PART II
Questions, Discussion and Future Scope of Study
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INFORMATION EVOLUTION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
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WHAT OTHER KINDS OF INFORMATION CAN BE CONSIDERED?
News, Stories, Photos, Events, etc.
The data sets are from 2011 and majorly
textual. Memes today are more image-based. How do memes evolve
in image format?
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS?
● What about inter-platform sharing?
● What about time-specific social networks like Snapchat?
● “Character limits on status updates …… curtailed replication ability of memes.” What about Twitter?
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CAN INFORMATION EVOLUTION BE USED IN OTHER FIELDS OF INFORMATICS?
I believe this was partly ‘Social Informatics’ and partly ‘Complex Systems’?
● Security - Computer Virus/ Malware (Richard Dawkins)
● Complex Systems -Optimization problems
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SOME OTHER QUESTIONS
● Application of Graph Theoryin memetics? **
● Why not try the reverse? -Application of memetics to genetic theories (Is there any work being done?)
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** "Automatic Theory Formation in Graph Theory", Piston &Wainer, 1999
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Questions/ Comments?