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People sometimes change their opinions when they discuss things with other people. Researchers can use mathematics to study opinion changes in simplifications of real-life situations. These simplified settings, which are examples of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-07 Grace J. Li , Jiajie Luo , Kaiyan Peng , Mason A. Porter

In today's digital age, social media platforms play a crucial role in shaping public opinion. This study explores how discussions led by influencers on Twitter, now known as 'X', affect public sentiment and contribute to online…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Rezaur Rashid , Joshua Melton , Ouldouz Ghorbani , Siddharth Krishnan , Shannon Reid , Gabriel Terejanu

In this paper, we present an empirical study of the opinion dynamics of a large-scale sample of online social network users. We estimate opinions of users as continuous scalars based on their subscriptions to information sources and analyze…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ivan V. Kozitsin

Polarization, defined as the emergence of sharply divided groups with opposing and often extreme views, is an increasingly prominent feature of modern societies. While many studies analyze this phenomenon in the context of single issues,…

Motivated by the literature on opinion dynamics and evolutionary game theory, we propose a novel mathematical framework to model the intertwined coevolution of opinions and decision-making in a complex social system. In the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lorenzo Zino , Mengbin Ye , Ming Cao

Network dynamics has always been a meaningful topic deserving exploration in the realm of academy. previous network models contain two parts: (1) generating structure as per user property; (2) changing property as per network structure.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Xi Chen , Jie Tang , Yizhou Sun

The emergence of opinion polarization within human communities -- the phenomenon that individuals within a society tend to develop conflicting attitudes related to the greatest diversity of topics -- has been a focus of interest for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-05 Anna Zafeiris

We explore a new mechanism to explain polarization phenomena in opinion dynamics in which agents evaluate alternative views on the basis of the social feedback obtained on expressing them. High support of the favored opinion in the social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-22 Sven Banisch , Eckehard Olbrich

Social media popularity and importance is on the increase due to people using it for various types of social interaction across multiple channels. This systematic review focuses on the evolving research area of Social Opinion Mining, tasked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Keith Cortis , Brian Davis

We here discuss the process of opinion formation in an open community where agents are made to interact and consequently update their beliefs. New actors (birth) are assumed to replace individuals that abandon the community (deaths). This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-07 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Alessio Guarino , Franco Bagnoli , Andrea Guazzini

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 of literature suggests an interesting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Rediet Abebe , Jon Kleinberg , David Parkes , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

After the recent COVID-19 outbreaks, it became increasingly evident that individuals' thoughts and beliefs can have a strong impact on disease transmission. It becomes therefore important to understand how information and opinions on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-27 Giacomo Albi , Elisa Calzola , Giacomo Dimarco , Mattia Zanella

The proliferation of public networks has enabled instantaneous and interactive communication that transcends temporal and spatial constraints. The vast amount of textual data on the Web has facilitated the study of quantitative analysis of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-22 Yasuko Kawahata

Modelling efforts in opinion dynamics have to a large extent ignored that opinion exchange between individuals can also have an effect on how willing they are to express their opinion publicly. Here, we introduce a model of public opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-14 Felix Gaisbauer , Eckehard Olbrich , Sven Banisch

Since the advent of the internet, communication paradigms have continuously evolved, resulting in a present-day landscape where the dynamics of information dissemination have undergone a complete transformation compared to the past. In this…

The dynamical origin of opinion polarization in the real world is an interesting topic physical scientists may help to understand. To properly model the dynamics, the theory must be fully compatible with findings by social psychologists on…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-03 H. F. Chau , C. Y. Wong , F. K. Chow , C. -H. F. Fung

In this paper we consider the modeling of opinion dynamics over time dependent large scale networks. A kinetic description of the agents' distribution over the evolving network is considered which combines an opinion update based on binary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Giacomo Albi , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

We survey a range of models of opinion exchange. From the introduction: "The exchange of opinions between individuals is a fundamental social interaction... Moreover, many models in this field are an excellent playground for mathematicians,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Elchanan Mossel , Omer Tamuz

Individuals of modern societies share ideas and participate in collective processes within a pervasive, variable, and mostly hidden ecosystem of content filtering technologies that determine what information we see online. Despite the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-28 Antonio F. Peralta , Matteo Neri , János Kertész , Gerardo Iñiguez

We introduce a new opinion dynamics model where a group of agents holds two kinds of opinions: inherent and declared. Each agent's inherent opinion is fixed and unobservable by the other agents. At each time step, agents broadcast their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Ali Jadbabaie , Anuran Makur , Elchanan Mossel , Rabih Salhab