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Valdis wrote:
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> Is there any serious research on the distortion of information as it
> travels along a network path -- similar to the popular children's game
> of "Telephone"? A Google search brings up nothing.
>

The canonical cite for this work is Allport and Postman's old
stuff...there has been relatively little systematic empirical work since
on that particular problem, although there is a great deal of work on
related issues in network diffusion (both empirical and theoretical).
Gabriel Lawson and I have recently revisited the original A&P data, and
are working on this problem vis a vis the flow of crisis information
through interpersonal networks. We presented some of this at the recent
NAACSOS conference in Pittsburgh; a very brief summary is available in
the online proceedings (search for NAACSOS).

-Carter

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