“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and
possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.”—Kirkus Reviews Editors' …

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 …

The use of dyadic interaction between agents, in combination with homophily (the principle
that “likes attract”) in the Axelrod model for the study of cultural dissemination, has two …

We study cultural dissemination in the context of an Axelrod-like agent-based model
describing the spread of cultural traits across a society, with an added element of social …

We investigate the problem of cross-cultural interactions through mass media in a model
where two populations of social agents, each with its own internal dynamics, get information …

An important feature of Axelrod's model for culture dissemination or social influence is the
emergence of many multicultural absorbing states, despite the fact that the local rules that …

Assimilation–the tendency for individuals to adjust their opinions to more closely align with
those around them–is one of the central components of computational social-influence and …

Mass Media outlets have occupied the central role of the political scenario, and are
persuasive in the process of opinion formation of the citizens. In particular, the study of the …

The model is based on a vector representation of each agent. The components of the vector
are the key continuous “attributes” that determine the social behavior of the agent. A simple …

In recent years the problem of modelling social interactions using methods from more
mathematically rigorous disciplines has received much attention. The physics community in …