Opinion dynamics: models, extensions and external effects

A Sîrbu, V Loreto, VDP Servedio, F Tria - Participatory sensing, opinions …, 2017 - Springer
Recently, social phenomena have received a lot of attention not only from social scientists,
but also from physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists, in the emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Opinion dynamics on interacting networks: media competition and social influence

W Quattrociocchi, G Caldarelli, A Scala - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
The inner dynamics of the multiple actors of the informations systems–ie, TV, newspapers,
blogs, social network platforms,–play a fundamental role on the evolution of the public …

Mass media and heterogeneous bounds of confidence in continuous opinion dynamics

M Pineda, GM Buendía - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work focuses on the effects of an external mass media on continuous opinion dynamics
with heterogeneous bounds of confidence. We modified the original Deffuant et al. and …

Opinions, conflicts, and consensus: modeling social dynamics in a collaborative environment

J Török, G Iñiguez, T Yasseri, M San Miguel, K Kaski… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Information-communication technology promotes collaborative environments like Wikipedia
where, however, controversy and conflicts can appear. To describe the rise, persistence …

Mass media and repulsive interactions in continuous-opinion dynamics

TV Martins, M Pineda, R Toral - Europhysics Letters, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This letter focuses on the effect of repulsive interactions on the adoption of an external
message in an opinion model. With a simple change in the rules, we modify the Deffuant et …

[图书][B] Participatory sensing, opinions and collective awareness

V Loreto, M Haklay, A Hotho, VDP Servedio, G Stumme… - 2016 - Springer
The origin of this book is tightly linked with the EveryAware project that I had the honour to
coordinate from 2011 to 2014 (www. everyaware. eu). EveryAware was funded by the …

Setting the agenda: Different strategies of a mass media in a model of cultural dissemination

S Pinto, P Balenzuela, CO Dorso - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2016 - Elsevier
Day by day, people exchange opinions about news with relatives, friends, and coworkers. In
most cases, they get informed about a given issue by reading newspapers, listening to the …

[HTML][HTML] Media preference increases polarization in an agent-based election model

A Di Benedetto, CE Wieners, HA Dijkstra… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Western societies have become more polarized over the last decades which forms a threat
to their democracies. It is therefore important to understand the detailed mechanisms behind …

[HTML][HTML] Opinion formation and the collective dynamics of risk perception

M Moussaïd - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The formation of collective opinion is a complex phenomenon that results from the combined
effects of mass media exposure and social influence between individuals. The present work …

Opinion dynamics with disagreement and modulated information

A Sîrbu, V Loreto, VDP Servedio, F Tria - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2013 - Springer
Opinion dynamics concerns social processes through which populations or groups of
individuals agree or disagree on specific issues. As such, modelling opinion dynamics …