Nicholas Christakis was interviewed for the article, "Numbers Won't Tell Us When The Pandemic Is Over; Our emotional relationship to COVID-19 will drive our transition out of the pandemic," written by Nicole Wetsman for the Science section of The Verge, published on May 20, 2021.
Nicholas Christakis was interviewed by Clay S. Jenkinson, Editor-At-Large for Governing: The Future of States and Localities. The interview is a part of the Future in Context series and was published on March 16, 2021.
Nicholas Christakis was interviewed on March 13, 2020 by YaleNews as part of their In Focus Collection: Yale responds to COVID-19.
A 40-minute interview with Dr. Christakis discussing changes in Social Science in the new millennium (“A New Kind of Social Science for the 21st Century”).
It is customary to think about fashions in things like clothes or music as spreading in a social network. But it turns out that all kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we are seeking to discover. We've been investigating the spread of obesity through a network, the spread of smoking cessation through a network, the spread of happiness through a network, the spread of loneliness through a network, the spread of altruism through a network. And we have been thinking about these kinds of things while also keeping an eye on the fact that networks do not just arise from nothing or for nothing. Very interesting rules determine their structure.
Source: Edge.com (2007)