https://alex.halavais.net/communication-of-sars/ Things that interest me. Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:36:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://alex.halavais.net/communication-of-sars/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=298#comment-309 Have you read Gladwell’s _The Tipping Point_? While it’s focused on the dissemination of ideas and memes, it begins with a discussion of epidemics and how they spread.

]]> https://alex.halavais.net/communication-of-sars/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=298#comment-310 Yes, the idea of message systems–sometimes as gossip–spreading like disease stretches back at least 50 years. But I wonder whether: (a) the metaphor has been taken to its most extreme, and (b, relatedly) whether it is really a metaphor at all. Perhaps, rather, what we consider a disease is a subset of what we consider communication.

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