When resources collide: Towards a theory of coincidence in information spaces�Markus Luczak-Roesch, Ramine Tinati, Nigel Shadbolt �@mluczak | http://sociam.org �

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[2] Bikhchandani, Sushil, David Hirshleifer, and Ivo Welch. "A theory of fads, fashion, custom, and cultural change as informational cascades." Journal of political Economy (1992): 992-1026.�[3] Cheng, Justin, et al. "Can cascades be predicted?." Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, 2014.�

We can observe situations when online communication does not happen along explicit social ties (especially in critical situations when time to make decisions is rare). Instead of talking explicitly with each other people are broadcasting about the same event or topic.�

Source: United Nations Development Programme, https://goo.gl/Z1uXdV, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 �

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Formalising the multiple possible representations of a system at any time and their relationships.��Not all representing purposeful action but reflecting useful informational properties.�

By focusing only on the coincidence of information occurrence, we can capture and analyse emergent collective action across system boundaries and independent from social network contexts.�����Markus Luczak-Roesch �@mluczak�http://markus-luczak.de�

Source: Giulia Forsythe, http://goo.gl/6hpZ0W, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0�

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s�•  Markus Luczak-Roesch, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O'Hara, and Nigel

Shadbolt. 2015. Socio-technical Computation. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'15 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 139-142. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2685553.2698991 �

•  Markus Luczak-Roesch, Ramine Tinati, and Nigel Shadbolt. 2015. When Resources Collide: Towards a Theory of Coincidence in Information Spaces. To appear in WWW’15 Companion, May 18–22, 2015, Florence, Italy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2743973 �