See also Causality and Contagion.
It has been well-known that "similarity breeds connection"^1, and the phenomenon is called 'homophily'. One of the biggest issues is "can we distinguish influence from homophily with observational data?" James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis published a series of paper on the spreading of obesity, smoking, etc through a social network. There has been a long debate on these papers.
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- http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/homophily-vs-influence.html
- Is obesity contagious? A Review of the Debate over the "Network Effects" of Obesity by Conrad Lee
- Social contagion? Maybe not… by Michał Bojanowski
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- Quantifying causal influences
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Feedback effects between similarity and social influence in online communities
- Differences in the mechanics of information diffusion across topics: idioms, political hashtags, and complex contagion on twitter
- TwitterRank: finding topic-sensitive influential twitterers
- Measuring user influence in Twitter: The million follower fallacy
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