Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind

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

2007-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/0710.4911v1

Computer Science

Computers and Society

6 pages, 1 figure, AAAI format, submitted to AAAI spring 2008 symposium on "Social Information Processing"

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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.

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