I am looking for research on the common social dynamic known as the "telephone game" — a message is told and re-told, becoming more and more distorted with each re-telling. Specifically, is there telephone game research from a social network analysis perspective?

* Does network density and clustering coefficient matter?

* How do “bridges” and “hubs” affect the message flow?

* How distorted does a message get with each re-telling?

- interested in verbal/written interaction between people, not the forwarding of a static document or email along a chain

Any pointers, ideas?