Mass media and polarisation processes in the bounded confidence model of opinion dynamics

JASSS

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-63

  Mckeown, Gary ^a   Sheehy, Noel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Consensus; Extremists; Mass media; Opinion dynamics; Polarisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044448964     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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