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The power law of information : life in a connected world /

We live in an era of unparalleled access to information and communication technologies. The Internet and other information tools like the television are becoming ever more central to our lives-we chat, blog, e-mail and e-shop, leaving behind our footprints in this version of public space. In additio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Srinivasa, Srinath, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Response Books, a division of Sage Pub., 2006.
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505 0 |a Information and the power law -- 1.1 The information age -- 1.2 Properties of information -- 1.3 Non-linear "frictionless" systems -- Non-linear frictionless systems -- 2.1 Thinking in circles -- 2.2 Sensitivity to initial conditions -- 2.3 Bifurcations -- 2.4 Self-similarity -- Information and rationality -- 3.1 Rational choice and ignorance -- 3.2 Information-related fallacies -- 3.3 Prisoner's dilemma and stable strategies -- 3.4 Evolutionary models of ideas -- 3.5 Satisficing behaviour -- 3.6 Conformance and cartels -- 3.7 Information commons and the attention economy -- Information networks and cascades -- 4.1 Random graphs and connectivity -- 4.2 Small-world phenomena -- 4.3 Clustered graphs and the degree of separation -- 4.4 Kleinberg connectivity -- 4.5 Information cascades in social networks -- Information and money -- 5.1 A brief history of money -- 5.2 Money as commodity and the money marketplace -- 5.3 Purchasing power dynamics in a wired world -- 5.4 Greed is bad for the strong, worse for the weak -- 5.5 Regulate what: material or money? 
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