Infostorms: Why Do We 'Like'? Explaining Individual Behavior on the Social Net.

By Vincent F Hendricks, Pelle G Hansen, Vincent F. Hendricks, et al.

Chapter 1: Off We Go

1.1 Social Psychology on Speed

1.2 Information vs. Knowledge

1.3 Side-Tracking and Manipulation

1.4 Individual Search and Social Proof

1.5 Parts and Parcels

Part 1: How Information Technologies May Amplify Irrational Group Behavoir

Chapter 2: Common Knowledge and Public Space

2.1 The Day Public Space Sold Out

2.2 More than the Opposite of Private

2.3 Public Announcements and Infinite Knowledge

2.4 Notions of Group Knowledge

2.5 Public Space as a Fundamental Informational Structure

2.6 The Social Power of Public Space

2.7 Techno-Ideological Pickets

2.8 Public Space and Online Status

Chapter 3: Pluralistic Ignorance and Bystanders

3.1 Computer City

3.2 Today's Lesson: Pluralistic Ignorance

3.3 Pluralistic Ignorance and the Bystander Effect

3.4 The Recipe for Bystander-Effects

3.5 Cyber Bullying - The Case of Amanda Todd

3.6 The Frailty of Ignorance

Chapter 4: Informational Cascades and Lemmings

4.1 Air France, Delta Airlines and Terminals

4.2 Amazon and Sex and the City

4.3 The Nuts And Bolts of Cascades

4.4 Status Economics

4.5 A Decisive Piece of Information

4.6 True Disciples and Disbelievers

4.7 Infostorms in a Connected World

Part Ii: Why Free Choice, Markets and Deliberation Cannot Protect Us

Chapter 5: Choice: Framing Choice

5.1 "Like" It or Not?

5.2 Framing Approval

5.3 Choosing Between Life and Death

5.4 Framing a Problem

5.5 Risky Insurance

5.6 Fumbles in Frames

5.7 Information in a New Key

5.8 The Art of Framing Democracy

Chapter 6: Markets: Choosing Frames

6.1 The Invisible Hands of Democracy

6.2 Positive Freedom

6.3 The Relevance of Self-Determination

6.4 Political Freedom and Individual Choice

6.5 Walking the Dog at Night

6.6 Individual Choice and Climate Negotiations

6.7 Market Competition and Tour De France

6.8 Ulysses and the Song of the Sirens

Chapter 7: Deliberation: Polarized People

7.1. Trouble Either Way

7.2 Deliberating to the Extreme

7.3 Gnomes and People Like Us

7.4 The Brass Tacks of Polarization

7.5 I Want To Be Just Like You All

7.6 Group Polarization and Individual Marginalization

7.7 I Can't Read You Online

7.8 Dissolving Divarication

7.9 Deliberative Democratic Systems

7.10 Echo Chambers and Stomping Grounds

7.11 Deaf, Blind and Mute

Chapter 8: The Constitutive Games We Play

8.1 Decision Frames

8.2 Blood Money

8.3 Inferring Micro-Motives from Macro-Behavior

8.4 Riots and Ghettos

8.5 Why Democracy is not just 'One Vote'

8.6 Mistaking Society for a Company

Part 3: Wars, Bubbles and Democracy

Chapter 9: Wars

9.1 Just Another Day at the Office

9.2 Quicksand at the Bus Stop

9.3 The Logic of Death Tolls

9.4 Taking a Hammering at the Auction

9.5 A Lemon Market for Apples

9.6 Zombies in Vegas

9.7 Escaping the One-Armed Bandit in Afghanistan

9.8 In the Pocket of Taliban

Chapter 10: Bubbles

10.1 Bubble Trouble

10.2 Bubble Sorts

10.3 Science Bubbles

10.4 Status Bubbles

10.5. Enough About Me, What About You, What Do You Think Of Me?

10.6 What Is It With "Likes"?

10.7 Opinion in Excess

10.8 Opinion on The Market

10.9 Noise Traders and Noisemakers

10.10 Bubble-Hospitable Environments

Chapter 11: Democracy

11.1 Taking Stock

11.2 Yesterday's Democracy

11.3 "That's Just Unacceptable!"

11.4 Post-Factual Democracy

11.5 True Democracy

11.6 D

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331932764X
• ISBN13: 9783319327648
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Copernicus Books
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"