Media virality
Strategic modelling for content creators
August 30, 2016 — July 15, 2021
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Contagion of ideas and opinions is particularly well studied in the case of media. I know a little about about this, thanks to my own masters thesis.
For a deep dive, why not excavate the references in the ANU Computational Media Group which does an excellent job in this realm?
1 References
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