Phylogenetics in social media: Application of genetic methods to conduct content analysis in social networks

This paper explains the application of phylogenetics - the scientific study of evolutionary relationships between organisms - to social media, in order to understand how relationships between brands and consumers develop online.

Phylogenetics in social media: Application of genetic methods to conduct content analysis in social networks

Luz Angela Alonso Morales and Maria Angelica Aya Zárate OMD Colombia

Introductionl

"All living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. … Therefore I should infer… that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." Darwin, The Origin of Species, (1859, page 484).

Different disciplines such as sociology,...

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