![]() ![]() Our intuition is that a few hops are enough to reach anyone on social media, and algorithms prove that right. From there, it appears in the feeds of followers of those followers and outwards from there. When it comes to viral memes, if a user posts a meme on Instagram, it shows up in their followers’ home feed. Mike Pence's fly: From Renaissance portraits to Salvador Dalí, artists used flies to make a point about appearances The process ends when every node is burning for example, the process ends if every person in a population catches COVID-19.įrom Bernie Sander’s mittens to Baby Yoda or Mike Pence’s fly, memes appear and spread quickly through social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The latter part is an essential feature: multiple sources pop up anywhere in the network over time. How can we measure the speed of contagion in a network? Viruses and memes inspired the idea of network burning, which measures the speed at which contagion spreads between nodes.īurning spreads over discrete time-steps, and one new source of burning appears at each step of the process. Without mitigation, contagion is analogous to a fire burning up a dry forest, wreaking havoc across large areas. A challenge with modelling a viral outbreak is that infections do not spread from one person alone but from many sources. From there, the virus may spread to others in their contact network. If a person becomes infected with COVID-19, they can infect those close to them. Darker nodes in the figure have more edges. Close physical interactions between people are the cause of the spread of viruses like COVID-19 through social networks. Terms like the “R number” and “exponential spread” are now part of our everyday lexicon. Over the past year, we’ve heard a lot in the news cycle about epidemiology, focusing on the science of how infections spread in populations. Despite mitigating efforts such as physical distancing and face masks, new hotspots of infection may readily appear. When a person becomes infected with COVID-19, they may infect others physically close to them at their home, workplace or in a crowded public space. At the time of writing, there are more than 100 million COVID-19 cases and two million deaths worldwide. Memes aside, we are in the middle of a deadly global pandemic, unlike anything we’ve faced in modern times. Sanders seated at the inauguration that went viral, resulting in an explosion of thousands of memes that spread rapidly across the world. The photographer Brendan Smialowski captured the image of Sen. He has now made his way down the Heritage Corridor, visiting some of our local restaurants, breweries, wineries and shops.None of us escaped the Bernie Sanders mitten memes following President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Senator Bernie Sanders has become an internet sensation over the past several days from his infamous picture at the inauguration last Wednesday.įrom his causal mittens, to the comfortable pose as he sat patiently during the event, Bernie stole the show and now we are seeing him posted everywhere around the United States. The Bernie Sanders Meme Travels Through the Heritage Corridor
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