Information Characteristics of Social Activity

Abstract

Assuming that the types of an individual’s (agent’s) social activity form a finite countable set, and employing the characteristics of digital traces, the model of agents’ actions is considered as a Markov information source whose diversity is described by the sum of constructive and destructive entropies. A coefficient of constructive development is introduced as the ratio of constructive entropy to the entropy of the overall diversity of social activity. The rate of an agent’s social transformation is defined as the ratio of mutual information about the transformation to the transformation time interval. The maximum value of this rate, given a specified stability coefficient, defines the constructive transformational capacity of the social environment. Obstacles to the practical validation of the proposed characteristics are discussed.