Collective behavior and public opinion rapid shifts in opinion and communication

This is a highly innovative and stimulating work with the outline of an entirely new approach to massive and rapid shifts in opinion and communication. It discusses and explains such mysterious phenomena as sudden crazes and crashes, fads and fashion, hypes and manias, moral outrage and protests, go...

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Autor principal: Ginneken, Jaap van, 1943- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum 2003.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:European Institute for the Media series.
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  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: A New Vision; PART I: MIND QUAKES; Chapter 1 Public Opinion as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS); Chapter 2 The Continuous Mutation of Informal Messages; Chapter 3 Circular Reaction in Media Hypes; PART II: EMERGING COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; Chapter 4 The Formation of Synergy in Crowds; Chapter 5 The Emergence of Patterns in Opinion Currents; Chapter 6 The Self-Organization of Social Movements; PART III: SHIFTING PUBLIC MOODS; Chapter 7 The Evolving Context of Fashion and Fads; Chapter 8 Critical Thresholds in Fear and Panic
  • Chapter 9 Possible Attractors in Outrage and ProtestPART IV: Conclusions; Chapter 10 Phase Transitions in Crazes and Crashes; Chapter 11 Prediction, Planning, and Fundamental Uncertainty; Chapter 12 Epilogue: Issues Management?; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author