The social media environment had some interesting upstarts before Facebook. They eventually failed to achieve much, leaving ...

Here we use an adaptive social network model to elaborate the interplay between a central and a local government in order to maintain a polycentric governance. More specifically, our analysis explores ...

This course will examine the key papers in the development of social network analysis, and will develop the theory and methodological tools needed to model and predict social networks and use them in ...

MeWe, one of the world’s largest privacy-first social networks, is joining forces with Avalanche, a cutting-edge blockchain ...

I construct a dynamic social-network model of the COVID-19 epidemic which embeds the SIR epidemiological model onto a graph of person-to-person interactions. The standard SIR framework assumes uniform ...

Our framework combines a SIR epidemiological model of virus diffusion with a dynamic game of network production and social interactions. The economy comprises three types of geographic locations: ...

Learn about the resurgence of Mastodon, the decentralized social network offering a privacy-focused alternative to X.