Virality contagion theory in the age of networks /

Sampson, Tony D.

Virality contagion theory in the age of networks / [Texte imprimé] : Tony D. Sampson - Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, cop. 2012 - 1 vol. (235 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm

Bibliogr. p. 195-221

Resuscitating Tarde's diagram in the age of networks -- What spreads? from memes and crowds to the phantom events of desire and belief -- What diagram? toward a political economy of desire and contagion -- From terror contagion to the virality of love -- Tardean hypnosis : capture and escape in the age of contagion

978-0-8166-7004-8 978-0-8166-7005-5

Imitation Social interaction Crowds Tarde, Gabriel de, 1843-1904

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