The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most
important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of …

We evaluate the empirical evidence interrogating the question of whether social media
erodes social cohesion. We look at how networks, information exchange, and norms operate …

Surveillance capitalism is what happened when US democracy stood down. Two decades
later, it fails any reasonable test of responsible global stewardship of digital information and …

An intensely debated topic is whether political polarization on social media is on the rise. We
can investigate this question only if we can quantify polarization, by taking into account how …

The precise mechanisms by which the information ecosystem polarizes society remain
elusive. Focusing on political sorting in networks, we develop a computational model that …

A multiagent system should be capable of fast and flexible decision-making to successfully
manage the uncertainty, variability, and dynamic change encountered when operating in the …

Extreme polarization can undermine democracy by making compromise impossible and
transforming politics into a zero-sum game.“Ideological polarization”—the extent to which …

A number of trends in national and international politics greatly affect our capacity to achieve
the cooperation that will be necessary to address the challenges facing society over the …

Social network simulation plays a crucial role in addressing various challenges within social
science. It offers extensive applications such as state prediction, phenomena explanation …

Despite AI-driven recommendation algorithms being widely adopted to counter information
overload, substantial evidence suggests that they are building cocoons of homogeneous …