Connected : the surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives--how your friends' friends' friends affect everything you feel, think, and do

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Emotional contagion as a precursor to collective emotions (2014, unknown): “The Contagion of Obesity Christakis and Fowler (2011) garnered a great deal of attention when they proposed that social contagion predicted that obesity can spread through a social network, just like viruses spread, because people “infect” others with their perceptions and habits.”
Social isolation: A conceptual and measurement proposal (2014, unknown): “See, also, the discussion by Christakis and Fowler (2011) on how social networks shape our lives.”
Structure and dynamics of molecular networks: A novel paradigm of drug discovery: A comprehensive review (2012, methodology): “…social networks and their potential effects on spreading of epidemics, as well as disease-related habits such as drug abuse, smoking, over-eating, etc. (Christakis & Fowler, 2011); • network-related modeling methods, such as: neural network models, differential equation networks,…”
'You have one identity': performing the self on Facebook and LinkedIn (2013, background): “Networked connectedness quickly came to dominate the organization of everyday sociality (Christakis and Fowler, 2009; Van Dijck, 2012).”