Analyzing Rumors, Gossip, and Urban Legends Through Their Conversational Properties

By B. Guerin, Yoshihiko Miyazaki. 2006

88 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Experiencing Gossip: The Foundations for a Theory of Embedded Organizational Gossip (2010, background): “Given the strongly face-to-face character of much organizational gossip, a conversational exchange perspective rather than an information dissemination perspective seems more suited to the study of gossip (Guerin & Miyazaki, 2006).”
• Is gossip power? The inverse relationships between gossip, power, and likability (2011, background): “For example, Guerin and Miyazaki (2006) noted that the first person to relay important gossip to another earns huge social capital in terms of social influence.”