Social evaluation to celebrities’ gossip

Spreading gossip in social networks.

We study a simple model of information propagation in social networks, where two quantities are introduced: the spread factor, which measures the average maximal reachability of the neighbors of a given node that interchange information among each other, and the spreading time needed for the information to reach such a fraction of nodes. When the information refers to a particular node at which...

Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network GOSSIP: IDENTIFYING CENTRAL INDIVIDUALS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK

Is it possible, simply by asking a few members of a community, to identify individuals who are best placed to diffuse information? A model of diffusion shows how members of a community can, just by tracking gossip about others, identify those who are most central in a network according to “diffusion centrality” – a network centrality measure that predicts the diffusion of a piece of information...

Gossip in Organizations A Social Network Study

Gossip Spread in Social Network Models

Gossip almost inevitably arises in real social networks. In this article we investigate the relationship between the number of friends of a person and limits on how far gossip about that person can spread in the network. How far gossip travels in a network depends on two sets of factors: a) factors determining gossip transmission from one person to the next and b) factors determining network to...

The effect of gossip on social networks

In this project we look at the effects of gossip spread on social network structure. We define gossip as information passed between two individuals A and B about an individual C who is not present, which has the potential to affect the strengths of all three relationships A-B, B-C, and A-C. This work is novel in two respects: first, there is no theoretical work on how network structure changes ...