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Michael Macy
Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
MACY, Michael
Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Michael Macy is Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology, Professor of Information Science and Director of the Social Dynamics Laboratory at Cornell. With support from the National Science Foundation, his research team has used computational models, online laboratory experiment and digital traces of device-mediated interaction to explore familiar but enigmatic social patterns, such as diurnal mood changes, the emergence and collapse of fads, the spread of self-destructive behaviors, the critical mass in collective action, the polarization of opinion, segregation of neighborhoods and assimilation of minority cultures. Recent research uses 509 million Twitter messages to track diurnal and seasonal mood changes in 54 countries, and complete UK call logs to measure the economic consequences of network structure.
His research has been published in leading journals, including Science, PNAS, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Annual Review of Sociology.
Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Michael Macy is Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology, Professor of Information Science and Director of the Social Dynamics Laboratory at Cornell. With support from the National Science Foundation, his research team has used computational models, online laboratory experiment and digital traces of device-mediated interaction to explore familiar but enigmatic social patterns, such as diurnal mood changes, the emergence and collapse of fads, the spread of self-destructive behaviors, the critical mass in collective action, the polarization of opinion, segregation of neighborhoods and assimilation of minority cultures. Recent research uses 509 million Twitter messages to track diurnal and seasonal mood changes in 54 countries, and complete UK call logs to measure the economic consequences of network structure.
His research has been published in leading journals, including Science, PNAS, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Annual Review of Sociology.
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