Oct 11 2010
Nicholas Christakis
Internist, Social Scientist & Expert on Social Networks
Dr. Nicholas Christakis is a Professor at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School who has done groundbreaking research on social networks and social media. His startling findings present intriguing new evidence that our real-life social networks shape virtually every aspect of our lives. How we feel, whom we marry, whether we fall ill, how much money we make, and whether we vote — everything hinges on what others around us are doing, thinking, and feeling
“In 2009, he was named to the Time 100, Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world”
Dr. Christakis is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. For the past decade, Dr. Christakis has focused on how social networks form (“connection”) and how they influence behaviour (“contagion”). He has received various accreditations including TIMES’ one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, and named “most original thinker” of the year in 2008 by The McLaughlin Group. His research on social networks featured in TIME’s Year in Medicine in 2007 and 2008 and in Harvard Business Review’s Breakthrough Ideas of the Year (2009).[/expand]
Dr Christakis outlines the principles of network theory and demonstrates his vision and ideas in the real world. He makes a persuasive case how the power of social networks affect everything and everyone. Explaining why emotions are contagious, and how health behaviours spread, he overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm that social and online networks influence, change and affect every aspect of our lives relating to our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behaviour, politics, and much more. [/expand]
Dr Christakis though provoking and intriguing presentations are highly insightful, content rich and eloquently delivered.[/expand]
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