Information Spread in a Social Media Age

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Information Spread and Control

“He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.”

Hypatia

In the previous two chapters, an intuitive and fundamental overview of control systems was presented. Here, the same principles will be discussed, but with the goal of applying these principles to information spread. Because there is no one right method to use for any given information spread situation, a certain amount of intuition and creativity are required to design control schemes. To this end, socio-technical systems (of which social media systems are included) are presented as an intersection of social and technical subsystems along with external subsystem influences that ...