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What does it look like quantitatively?

Horita, Y., & Yamazaki, M. (2022). Generalized and behavioral trust: Correlation with nominating close friends in a social network. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xu8k3

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_board

We’ve analyzed thousands of COVID-19 misinformation narratives. Here are six regional takeaways—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://thebulletin.org/2021/06/weve-analyzed-thousands-of-covid-19-misinformation-narratives-here-are-six-regional-takeaways/

Leah Keating on Twitter: “This work with @DavidJPOS and @gleesonj is now on arXiv (https://t.co/hxjZnCmKcM): ‘A multi-type branching process method for modelling complex contagion on clustered networks’ Here is a quick overview of our paper: (1/6) https://t.co/3jQ2flhk71” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2021, from https://twitter.com/leahakeating/status/1418150117106978816

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Agarwal, A. (2021). Ripple Effect of a Pandemic: Analysis of the Psychological Stress Landscape during COVID19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dm5x2

Agarwal, A. (2021). The Accidental Checkmate: Understanding the Intent behind sharing Misinformation on Social Media. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kwu58

This is a great looking collection of articles on network science.

Karimi, Fariba, and Petter Holme. ‘A Temporal Network Version of Watts’s Cascade Model’. ArXiv:2103.13604 [Physics], 25 March 2021. http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13604.

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Di Lauro, F., Berthouze, L., Dorey, M. D., Miller, J. C., & Kiss, I. Z. (2020). The impact of network properties and mixing on control measures and disease-induced herd immunity in epidemic models: A mean-field model perspective. ArXiv:2007.06975 [Physics, q-Bio]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06975

Wang, Xiangrong, Alejandro Tejedor, Yi Wang, and Yamir Moreno. ‘Unique Superdiffusion Induced by Directionality in Multiplex Networks’. ArXiv:2011.00991 [Physics], 2 November 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00991.

Hota, Ashish R., Tanya Sneh, and Kavish Gupta. ‘Impacts of Game-Theoretic Activation on Epidemic Spread over Dynamical Networks’. ArXiv:2011.00445 [Physics], 1 November 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00445.

Heeren, A., HANSEEUW, B., Cougnon, L., & Lits, G. (2021, March 11). Excessive Worrying as the Driving Force of Anxiety During the First COVID-19 Lockdown-Phase in Belgium. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b34aj

Wang, X., Sirianni, A. D., Tang, S., Zheng, Z., & Fu, F. (2020). Public Discourse and Social Network Echo Chambers Driven by Socio-Cognitive Biases. Physical Review X, 10(4), 041042. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041042

Ogbunu, B. C. (2020, October 27). The Science That Spans #MeToo, Memes, and Covid-19. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-that-spans-metoo-memes-and-covid-19/

And they probably shouldn't because typically different levels of people are making these decisions. Studio brass and producers typically have more to say about the lead roles and don't care as much about the smaller ones which are overseen by casting directors or sometimes the producers. The only person who has oversight of all of them is the director, and even then they may quit caring at some point.

This makes me wonder if she's cited Mark Granovetter or any of similar sociologists yet?

Apparently she did in footnote 32 in chapter 1. Ha!

There's some definite connection to this to network theory of those like Stuart Kaufmann. You don't need every node to be directly connected to create a robust network, particularly when there are other layers--here interpersonal connections, cellular, etc.

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