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An early 2010 paper by Christakis and Fowler documented, using an in-person experiment, that cooperation behavior can cascade to three degrees of separation. [36] A 2012 experiment involved 61,000,000 people who used Facebook and it showed the spread of voting behavior out to two degrees of separation. [ 37 ]
Nicholas A. Christakis (US: / ˌ n ɪ k ə l ə s k r ɪ ˌ s t ɑː k ɪ s / NIK-ə-liss kriss-TAK-iss) (born May 7, 1962) is a Greek-American [1] sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the social, economic, biological, and evolutionary determinants of human welfare (including the behavior, health, and capabilities of individuals and groups).
Beginning in the late 1990s, social network analysis experienced work by sociologists, political scientists, and physicists such as Duncan J. Watts, Albert-László Barabási, Peter Bearman, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler, and others, developing and applying new models and methods to emerging data available about online social networks ...
Beginning in the late 1990s, social network analysis experienced a further resurgence with work by sociologists, political scientists, economists, computer scientists, and physicists such as Duncan J. Watts, Albert-László Barabási, Peter Bearman, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler, Mark Newman, Matthew Jackson, Jon Kleinberg, and others ...
In September 2009, Little, Brown & Co. published Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler. [36] Connected draws on previously published and unpublished studies, including the Framingham Heart Study and makes several new conclusions about the influence of ...
Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures: Cybercultures in Online Learning is a 2009 volume of essays in the "Perspectives in Instructional Technology and Distance Education" series, published by Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Christakis argued that, from a developmental perspective, students might wish to consider whether administrators should provide such guidance to college-age students. [37] This claim engendered mixed reactions on campus, but The Atlantic noted that "her message was a model of relevant, thoughtful, civil engagement."
Michael Quinion of WorldWideWords.org said in his review that usage guides "row a course against the current of modern lexicography and linguistics", which are descriptive fields that often fail to "meet the day-to-day needs of those users of English who want to speak and write in a way that is acceptable to educated opinion." Quinion opined ...