Selected Research

  • Information Theory

    “Information Theory for Human and Social Processes” Special Issue

    Ever since its earliest years, information theory has enjoyed both a promising and complicated relationship with the social sciences… time to take inventory… “Information Theory for Human and Social Processes”: open access Overview of a promising and complicated...
    December 23, 2020 5609 0
  • e-Democracy

    Communicating with Algorithms

    Hilbert, M., Ahmed, S., Cho, J., Liu, B., & Luu, J. (2018). Communicating with Algorithms: A Transfer Entropy Analysis of Emotions-based Escapes from Online Echo Chambers. Communication Methods and Measures, 0(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2018.1479843 ABSTRACT Online algorithms...
    June 13, 2018 9641 0
  • Complex Systems

    The More You Know, the More You Can Grow

    Hilbert, M. (2017). The More You Know, the More You Can Grow: An Information Theoretic Approach to Growth in the Information Age. Entropy, 19(2), 82. Open Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/2/82/htm    ABSTRACT In our information age, information alone has...
    March 20, 2017 13260 0
  • AI & Big Data

    Entrevista THE CLINIC Chile

    Martin Hilbert, experto en redes digitales: “Obama y Trump usaron el Big Data para lavar cerebros” Daniel Hopenhayn, 19 Enero, 2017. Tags: big data, Estados Unidos, Martin Hilbert, obama, redes digitales, Trump Compártelo  Tuitéalo  Lo conocen en la academia de las TICs por...
    January 20, 2017 8954 0
  • Research

    Information in the Biosphere

    Gillings, M. R., Hilbert, M., & Kemp, D. J. (2016). Information in the Biosphere: Biological and Digital Worlds. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31(3), 180–189.  ABSTRACT: Evolution has transformed life through key innovations in information storage...
    February 24, 2016 16765 0
  • ICT for Development

    Big Data for Development

    Development Policy Review ABSTRACT: The article uses a conceptual framework to review empirical evidence and some 180 articles related to the opportunities and threats of Big Data Analytics for international development. The advent of Big Data...
    January 3, 2015 101991 0
  • Complex Systems

    Scale-free power-laws as interaction between progress and diffusion

    Complexity ABSTRACT: While scale-free power-laws are frequently found in social and technological systems, their authenticity, origin, and gained insights are often questioned, and rightfully so. The article presents a newly found rank-frequency power-law that aligns the...
    December 1, 2013 9936 0
  • ICT for Development

    Towards a Conceptual Framework for ICT for Development

    Information Technologies & International Development ABSTRACT: The ICT for development community has long searched for comprehensive and dequate conceptual frameworks. In 2003, the United Nations Regional Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) proposed a...
    December 1, 2012 9709 0
  • Complex Systems

    Toward a synthesis of cognitive biases

    Psychological Bulletin ABSTRACT: A single coherent framework is proposed to synthesize long-standing research on 8 seemingly unrelated cognitive decision-making biases. During the past 6 decades, hundreds of empirical studies have resulted in a variety of rules...
    March 1, 2012 11713 0
  • ICT for Development

    The end justifies the definition

    Telecommunications Policy ABSTRACT: Based on the theory of the diffusion of innovations through social networks, the article discusses the main approaches researchers have taken to conceptualize the digital divide. The result is a common framework that...
    September 1, 2011 19414 0

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