{"id":9,"date":"2011-01-29T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2011-01-29T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T04:00:14","slug":"measuring-information-flow-in-a-social-circuit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Information Flow in A Social Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider a basic information flow structure in a social scene
\n<\/strong>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tFive persons (A,B,C,D,E) standing in a row
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tEach person can only communicate with the next person in row.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tIf all individuals are of same status \/ caliber, Will there be any significant information flow from person A to person E?
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tProbably not much, no one has much to share, the usual boring people! <\/p>\n

A\tB\tC\tD\tE<\/p>\n

Information flows from higher potential people \/ event to lower potential people<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tIf in the human chain, Mr. A gets replaced by President Obama P- a person of higher potential (by the virtue of his powers as president).<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tWould Mr. E at the other end of the chain, know the presence of Mr. President? Yes in a short while, as the news spreads. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tBut did Mr. E knew about the presence of Mr. A in the chain? Very likely the answer is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. As all persons were assumed to be of same social status (the usual kind). <\/p>\n

P \tB \tC \tD\tE<\/p>\n

Measuring resistance to the Information Flow \u00e2\u20ac\u201c measuring knowledge in context to information and other social physical barriers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tGreater the Knowledge (K) of individuals facilitating the information flow, lower will be the resistance (R) to information flow.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tThe information will get diffused and distorted if the number of individuals (N) (in series) in the chain increase. This will be due to lack of unified focused knowledge with respect to information flow.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tInformation flow through a social structure requires a minimum social bonding (m)between the individuals of a structure to facilitate information flow.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tConsidering the above factors, Resistance to the flow of information can be defined as below
\n \t\t\t\t R=m*(N\/K)
\nm is a constant of SOCIAL BONDING between the N individuals and K collective knowledge in context to information flow.<\/p>\n

By measuring potential of information and the resistance to the flow of information, we can create heat maps of information flow in a digital social structure. These can be used to predict and measure the individual response to the information. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tIdeally a response must be equal to the excitation provided by the information –\tResponse \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u009d= Excitation \u00e2\u20ac\u0153P\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tBut the resistance(R) to flow of information will factor down the response as below:\t\tI=P\/R
\n Substituting for R
\n \t\tI=P*K*1\/(m*N)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tThe above relation shows Information response (I) as a function of potential of information (P) which is flowing through the social structure, the knowledge in context to the information (K) of the carriers of information, (N) Number of individual persons, and (m) being the social bonding constant. <\/p>\n

The above concept shows striking parallelism between information flow in a social structure and the current flow in a basic electrical circuit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consider a basic information flow structure in a social scene \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Five persons (A,B,C,D,E) standing in a row \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Each person can only communicate with the next person in row. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 If all individuals are of same status \/ caliber, Will there be any significant information flow from person A to person E? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nikthinks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}