Statistical physics of social dynamics

C Castellano, S Fortunato, V Loreto - Reviews of modern physics, 2009 - APS
Statistical physics has proven to be a fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the
realm of traditional physics. Recent years have witnessed an attempt by physicists to study …

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] Voting contagion: Modeling and analysis of a century of US presidential elections

D Braha, MAM De Aguiar - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Social influence plays an important role in human behavior and decisions. Sources of
influence can be divided as external, which are independent of social context, or as …

Localized coherence in two interacting populations of social agents

JC González-Avella, MG Cosenza… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2014 - Elsevier
We investigate the emergence of localized coherent behavior in systems consisting of two
populations of social agents possessing a condition for non-interacting states, mutually …

The naming game in social networks: community formation and consensus engineering

Q Lu, G Korniss, BK Szymanski - Journal of Economic Interaction and …, 2009 - Springer
We study the dynamics of the Naming Game (Baronchelli et al. in J Stat Mech Theory Exp
P06014, 2006b) in empirical social networks. This stylized agent-based model captures …

Mass media and its impact on opinion dynamics of the nonlinear q-voter model

R Muslim, RA Nqz, MA Khalif - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the success of general conceptual frameworks of statistical physics, many scholars
have tried to apply these concepts to other interdisciplinary fields, such as socio-politics …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of mass media on opinion spreading in the Sznajd sociophysics model

N Crokidakis - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
In this work we consider the influence of mass media in the dynamics of the two-dimensional
Sznajd model. This influence acts as an external field, and it is introduced in the model by …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-border political competition

J Segovia-Martin, Ó Rivero - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Individuals are increasingly exposed to news and opinion from beyond national borders.
This news and opinion are often concentrated in clusters of ideological homophily, such as …

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 …