Selected Research

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...