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Rumor Spreading in Random Evolving Graphs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Randomized gossip is one of the most popular way of disseminating information in large scale networks. This method is appreciated for its simplicity, robustness, and efficiency. In the "push" protocol, every informed node selects, at every time step (a.k.a.
Andrea Clementi   +7 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

On the effectiveness of the truth-spreading/rumor-blocking strategy for restraining rumors

open access: yesCoRR, 2017
Spreading truths and blocking rumors are two typical strategies for inhibiting rumors. In practice, a tradeoff between the two strategies, which is known as the TSRB strategy, may achieve a better cost-effectiveness. This paper is devoted to assessing the effectiveness of the TSRB strategy.
Luxing Yang   +4 more
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Comparative Framing From Below: How Young People in Three Cities Interpret Cyber Dating Abuse by Drawing Boundaries Between Love, Harm, and Justice

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their ...
Susanne Y. P. Choi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to Discreetly Spread a Rumor in a Crowd [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper, we study PUSH-PULL style rumor spreading algorithms in the mobile telephone model, a variant of the classical telephone model in which each node can participate in at most one connection per round; i.e., you can no longer have multiple nodes pull information from the same source in a single round.
Mohsen Ghaffari 0001, Calvin Newport
openaire   +4 more sources

Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rumor, prodigia and ideology in the Flavian period

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2016
In the present paper we will analyze the role of rumor as a way of spreading prodigia during the Flavian period. The prodigia,perfectly ingrained in the system of religious legitimization of the ruler in roman times, are considered a direct expression of
Diego M. ESCÁMEZ DE VERA
doaj  

Locating source of rumor on online social networks : from rumor spreading model to algorithm

open access: yes, 2017
A series of source locating algorithms have been brought up in recent studies. However, less work has been done to compare their performance on online social networks as well as the performance on multiple source detection problems.
Luo, Fan
core  

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