Virality
Subtitle: contagion theory in the age of networks
By: Tony D. Sampson
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780816670048; 9780816670055
Subjects: Crowds; Imitation; Social interaction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Resuscitating Tarde's diagram in the age of networks; title: What spreads? from memes and crowds to the phantom events of desire and belief; title: What diagram? toward a political economy of desire and contagion; title: From terror contagion to the virality of love; title: Tardean hypnosis : capture and escape in the age of contagion.