Exploring Cultural Evolution Through Modular Dynamics in Temporal Hashtag Networks (opens in new tab)

Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Hiroki Sato, and Takashi Ikegami Entropy 2026, 28(4), 398 Social media platforms offer unprecedented opportunities to study cultural evolution by analyzing digital traces. This study presents a methodological framework for analyzing the temporal dynamics of cultural modules in hashtag co-occurrence networks. We address the inherent challenges of analyzing dense, skewed, and highly variable cultural networks by introducing a perturbation ensemble clustering approach that di...