Spread of hoax in Social Media

Situngkir, Hokky (2011): Spread of hoax in Social Media. Published in: BFI Working Paper Series No. WP-4-2011 (1 May 2011)

Abstract

We discuss the way of hoax spreading as gossip and rumor throughout the social media, i.e.: Twitter, by observing an empirical case in Indonesia. We discuss the spreading factor of the gossip in the social media and see the epidemiology of the propagation hoax before and after the hoax being clarified in the conventional mass media. The discussions brought us to the open enrchiment analysis of the sociology of gossip and rumors within the online services like Twitter for future observation of human behavior.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: social media, gossip, rumor, hoax, Twitter.
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics > D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C02 - Mathematical Methods; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R0 - General > R00 - General; Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology > Z10 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C90 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory > C70 - General; ; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology ; Computer Programs > C80 - General

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