The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1

  1. Centola D., How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex
    Contagions (Princeton University Press, 2018).

  2. Anderson C., ‘The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the
    Scientific Method Obsolete’, Wired, 23 June 2008.

  3. ‘Big Data, for better or worse: 90 per cent of world’s data
    generated over last two years’, Science Daily, 22 May 2013.

  4. Widely attributed to Goodhart in this form. Original statement:
    ‘Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once
    pressure is placed upon it for control purposes’. Goodhart C.,
    ‘Problems of Monetary Management: The U.K. Experience’, in
    Courakis, A. S. (ed.), Inflation, Depression, and Economic Policy
    in the West (Springer 1981).

  5. Small J.P., Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of
    Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity (Routledge, 1997).

  6. Lewis K. et al., ‘The Structure of Online Activism’, Sociological
    Science, 2014.

  7. Gabielkov M. et al., ‘Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on
    Twitter?’, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2016.

  8. Quotes from author interview with Dean Eckles, August 2017.

  9. Widely attributed, but no clear primary source.

  10. One common example of ad tracking is the Facebook Pixel.
    Source: ‘Conversion Tracking’, Facebook for Developers, 2019.
    https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-pixel

  11. Timeline from: Lederer B., ‘200 Milliseconds: The Life of a
    Programmatic RTB Ad Impression’, Shelly Palmer, 9 June 2014.

  12. Nsubuga J., ‘Conservative MP Gavin Barwell in “date Arab girls”
    Twitter gaffe’, Metro, 18 March 2013.

  13. Albright J., ‘Who Hacked the Election? Ad Tech did. Through
    “Fake News,” Identify Resolution and Hyper-Personalization’,
    Medium, 30 July 2017.

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