The role of social media in information dissemination and agenda-setting has significantly
expanded in recent years. By offering real-time interactions, online platforms have become …

We study the effect of time-fluctuating social influences on the formation of polarization and
consensus in a three-party community consisting of two types of voters (“leftists” and …

Mass media and social networks have become the primary channels for people to obtain
and share information. The news and information to which people are exposed or that they …

A varying number of particles is one of the most relevant characteristics of systems of interest
in nature and technology; ranging from the exchange of energy and matter with the …

Advertisement and propaganda have changed continuously in the past decades, mainly due
to the people's interactions at online platforms and social networks, and operate nowadays …

Public sentiment within social networks exerts a profound influence on societal dynamics,
underscoring the increasing demand for accurate public opinion prediction. Most existing …

The rise of digital social media has strengthened the coevolution of public opinions and
social interactions that shape social structures and collective outcomes in increasingly …

Some novel models of opinion dynamics are here formulated in terms of ordinary and of
stochastic differential equations. The focus is on the possible emergence of polarization …

We study interacting particle systems driven by noise, modeling phenomena such as
opinion dynamics. We are interested in systems that exhibit phase transitions ie non …

Public opinion is subject to peer interaction via social networks and external pressures from
the media, advertising, and other actors. In this paper, we study the interaction between …