Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind Export

@misc{citeulike:1840045, abstract = {This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution and understanding collective cognition. Under the first heading, I discuss some difficulties with the usual, adaptationist explanations of cultural phenomena, alternative explanations involving network diffusion effects, and some ways these could be tested using social-media data. Under the second I describe some of the ways in which social media could be used to study how the social organization of an epistemic community supports its collective cognitive performance.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Shalizi, Cosma R.}, citeulike-article-id = {1840045}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4911}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0710.4911}, day = {25}, eprint = {0710.4911}, keywords = {collective, intelligence, media, memetics, social}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2008-01-20 10:58:43}, priority = {5}, title = {Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4911}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1840045 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1840045 N2 - This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution and understanding collective cognition. Under the first heading, I discuss some difficulties with the usual, adaptationist explanations of cultural phenomena, alternative explanations involving network diffusion effects, and some ways these could be tested using social-media data. Under the second I describe some of the ways in which social media could be used to study how the social organization of an epistemic community supports its collective cognitive performance. TI - Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind KW - collective KW - intelligence KW - media KW - memetics KW - social AU - Shalizi, Cosma PY - 2007/Oct/25/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4911 ER -