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 …

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 …

Opinion dynamics tries to describe the process of public opinion formation in social systems.
Many opinion models have been presented that explore how the local individual behavior …

The study of the dynamics of opinion formation and transmission in social networks has
attracted lots of attention. Here, we propose a model that simulates communication in an …

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 …

In this paper, we analyze data on the opinion dynamics of 1,660,927 users of an online
social network using formal models of opinion formation. We have observed that moderate …

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

A fundamental aspect of society is the exchange and discussion of opinions between
individuals, occurring in situations as varied as company boardrooms, elementary school …

We consider a variation of the Deffuant-Weisbuch model introduced by Deffuant et al. in
2000, to provide new analytical insights on the opinion dynamics in a social group. We …

Many social networks are characterized by actors (nodes) holding quantitative opinions
about movies, songs, sports, people, colleges, politicians, and so on. These opinions are …