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Title: The dynamics of information-driven coordination phenomena: A transfer entropy analysis
Author: Borge-Holthoefer, Javier  
Perra, Nicola
Gonçalves, Bruno
Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra  
Arenas, Alex  
Moreno Vega, Yamir
Vespignani, Alessandro  
Citation: Borge-Holthoefer, J., Perra, N., Gonçalves, B., González-Bailón, S., Arenas Moreno, A., Moreno, Y. & Vespignani, A. (2016). "The dynamics of information-driven coordination phenomena: A transfer entropy analysis". Science Advances, 2(4). ISSN 2375-2548. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501158
Abstract: Data from social media provide unprecedented opportunities to investigate the processes that govern the dynamics of collective social phenomena. We consider an information theoretical approach to define and measure the temporal and structural signatures typical of collective social events as they arise and gain prominence. We use the symbolic transfer entropy analysis of microblogging time series to extract directed networks of influence among geolocalized subunits in social systems. This methodology captures the emergence of system-level dynamics close to the onset of socially relevant collective phenomena. The framework is validated against a detailed empirical analysis of five case studies. In particular, we identify a change in the characteristic time scale of the information transfer that flags the onset of information-driven collective phenomena. Furthermore, our approach identifies an order-disorder transition in the directed network of influence between social subunits. In the absence of clear exogenous driving, social collective phenomena can be represented as endogenously driven structural transitions of the information transfer network. This study provides results that can help define models and predictive algorithms for the analysis of societal events based on open source data.
Keywords: collective phenomena
transfer entropy
dynamical transitions
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501158
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Issue Date: Apr-2016
Publication license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/  
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