The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1

  1. Keizer K. et al., ‘The Importance of Demonstratively Restoring
    Order’, PLOS ONE, 2013.

  2. Tcherni-Buzzeo M., ‘The “Great American Crime Decline”:
    Possible explanations’, In Krohn M.D. et al., Handbook on Crime
    and Deviance, 2nd edition, (Springer, New York 2019).

  3. Alternative hypotheses for decline, and accompanying criticism:
    Levitt S.D., ‘Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four
    Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not’, Journal of
    Economic Perspectives, 2004; Nevin R., ‘How Lead Exposure
    Relates to Temporal Changes in IQ, Violent Crime, and Unwed
    Pregnancy’, Environmental Research Section A, 2000; Foote
    C.L. and Goetz C.F., ‘The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime:
    Comment’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008; Casciani D.,
    ‘Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?’, BBC
    News Online, 21 April 2014.

  4. Author interview with Melissa Tracy, August 2018.

  5. Lowrey A., ‘True Crime Costs’, Slate, 21 October 2010.
    5. Going viral

  6. Background on Buzzfeed from: Peretti J., ‘My Nike Media
    Adventure’, The Nation, 9 April 2001; Email correspondence with
    customer service representatives at Nike iD.
    http://www.yorku.ca/dzwick/niked.html Accessed: January 2018;
    Salmon F., ‘BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti Goes Long’, Fusion, 11
    June 2014; Lagorio-Chafkin C., ‘The Humble Origins of
    Buzzfeed’, Inc., 3 March 2014; Rice A., ‘Does BuzzFeed Know
    the Secret?’, New York Magazine, 7 April 2013.

  7. Peretti J., ‘My Nike Media Adventure’, The Nation, 9 April 2001.

  8. Background and quotes from author interview with Duncan
    Watts, February 2018. There is also a more detailed discussion
    of this research in: Watts D., Everything is Obvious: Why
    Common Sense is Nonsense (Atlantic Books, 2011).

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