{"id":1992,"date":"2009-11-26T15:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T09:55:38","slug":"cosma-shalizi-on-social-contagion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/icci-blog\/cosma-shalizi-on-social-contagion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosma Shalizi on social contagion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistician and polymath blogger Cosma Shalizi is preparing a paper [1] on social contagion, basically dwelling on the fact that the transmission of behaviours through social influence (&#8216;contagion&#8217;) is very hard to distinguish from the fact that similar people tend to be submitted to similar causal influences, and pair with people similar to themselves. Conversely, social contagion is easily mistaken for mere sociological determinism \u00e0 la Bourdieu. All he&#8217;s put online for the moment is a .ppt presentation &#8211; but a Powerpoint by Cosma Shalizi is worth a book by some others. <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/MERSIH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistician and polymath blogger Cosma Shalizi is preparing a paper [1] on social contagion, basically dwelling on the fact that the transmission of behaviours through social influence (&#8216;contagion&#8217;) is very hard to distinguish from the fact that similar people tend to be submitted to similar causal influences, and pair with people similar to themselves. Conversely, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cosma Shalizi on social contagion - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scary-committee.localsite.io\/blogs\/icci-blog\/cosma-shalizi-on-social-contagion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cosma Shalizi on social contagion - International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Statistician and polymath blogger Cosma Shalizi is preparing a paper [1] on social contagion, basically dwelling on the fact that the transmission of behaviours through social influence (&#8216;contagion&#8217;) is very hard to distinguish from the fact that similar people tend to be submitted to similar causal influences, and pair with people similar to themselves. 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