The rise of social media and online social networks has been a disruptive force in society.
Opinions are increasingly shaped by interactions on online social media, and social …

Controversy, disagreement, conflict, polarization and opinion divergence in social networks
have been the subject of much recent research. In particular, researchers have addressed …

The polarization of society over controversial social issues has been the subject of study in
social sciences for decades (Isenberg in J Personal Soc Psychol 50 (6): 1141–1151, 1986 …

Individual's opinions are fundamentally shaped and evolved by their interactions with other
people, and social phenomena such as disagreement and polarization are now tightly …

A long line of work in social psychology has studied variations in people's susceptibility to
persuasion--the extent to which they are willing to modify their opinions on a topic. This body …

Our opinions and judgments are increasingly shaped by what we read on social media--
whether they be tweets and posts in social networks, blog posts, or review boards. These …

We consider opinion diffusion in binary influence networks, where at each step one or more
agents update their opinions so as to be in agreement with the majority of their neighbors …

While social networks have increased the diversity of ideas and information available to
users, they are also blamed for increasing the polarization of user opinions. Eli Pariser's" …

This article studies how a centralized planner can modify the structure of a social or
information network to reduce polarization. First, polarization is found to be highly …

Online social networks provide a medium for citizens to form opinions on different societal
issues, and a forum for public discussion. They also expose users to viral content, such as …