Evolution of opinions on social networks in the presence of competing committed groups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Xie, Jierui ^a,c   Emenheiser, Jeffrey ^b,c   Kirby, Matthew ^b,c   Sreenivasan, Sameet ^a,b,c   Szymanski, Boleslaw K ^a,c   Korniss, Gyorgy ^b,c  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEADY STATE; ATTITUDE; EVOLUTION; GROUP PROCESS; MASS COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATTITUDE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; GROUP PROCESSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84858633978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033215     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Tarde G, (1969) On Communication and Social Influence: Selected Papers University of Chicago Press.
2. Lehmann J, Gonçalves B, Ramasco JJ, Cattuto C, (2011) Dynamical classes of collective attention in twitter. CoRR abs/1111.1896.
3. Morris N, (2000) Bridging the gap: An examination of diffusion and participatory approaches in development communication. Technical report, The CHANGE Project/The Manoff Group, Inc.
4. Steels L, (1995) A self-organizing spatial vocabulary. Artificial Life 2: 319.
5. Baronchelli A, Felici M, Caglioti E, Loreto V, Steels L, (2006) Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agent systems. J Stat Mech:Theory Exp P06014: 0509075.
6. Dall'Asta L, Baronchelli A, Barrat A, Loreto V, (2006) Nonequilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks. Phys Rev E 74: 036105.
7. Baronchelli A, Dall'Asta L, Barrat A, Loreto V, (2007) Nonequilibrium phase transition in negotiation dynamics. Phys Rev E 76: 051102.
8. Castelló X, Baronchelli A, Loreto V, (2009) Consensus and ordering in language dynamics. Eur Phys J B 71: 557.
9. Xie J, Sreenivasan S, Korniss G, Zhang W, Lim C, et al. (2011) Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities. Phys Rev E 84: 011130.
10. Mobilia M, (2003) Does a single zealot affect an infinite group of voters? Phys Rev Lett 91: 028701.
11. Galam S, Jacobs F, (2007) The role of inflexible minorities in the breaking of democratic opinion dynamics. Physica A 381: 366-376.
12. Lu Q, Korniss G, Szymanski BK, (2009) The naming game in social networks: community formation and consensus engineering. J Econ Interact Coord 4: 221.
13. Galam S, (2010) Public debates driven by incomplete scientific data: The cases of evolution theory, global warming and h1n1 pandemic influenza. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389: 3619-3631.
14. Mobilia M, Petersen A, Redner S, (2007) On the role of zealotry in the voter model. J Stat Mech:Theory Exp 2007: P08029.
15. Biswas S, Sen P, (2009) Model of binary opinion dynamics: Coarsening and effect of disorder. Phys Rev E 80: 027101.
16. Yildiz E, Acemoglu D, Ozdaglar AE, Saberi A, Scaglione A, (2011) Discrete Opinion Dynamics with Stubborn Agents. SSRN eLibrary.
17. Landau DP, Binder K, (2000) A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
18. Mori T, Miyashita S, Rikvold PA, (2010) Asymptotic forms and scaling properties of the relaxation time near threshold points in spinodal-type dynamical phase transitions. Phys Rev E 81: 011135.
19. Dykman MI, Mori E, Ross J, Hunt PM, (1994) Large fluctuations and optimal paths in chemical kinetics. J Chem Phys 100: 5735-5750.
20. Gardner TS, Cantor CR, Collins JJ, (2000) Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403: 339-342.
21. Arnold VI, (1988) Geometrical Methods in the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations. Springer; 2nd edition.
22. Herrmann DW, Klein W, Stauffer D, (1982) Spinodals in a long-range interaction system. Phys Rev Lett 49: 1262-1264.
23. Ray TS, (1991) Evidence for spinodal singularities in high-dimensional nearest-neighbor ising models. Journal of Statistical Physics 62: 463-472.
24. Maier RS, (1992) Large fluctuations in stochastically perturbed nonlinear systems: Applications in computing. Applications in computing, in 1992 Lectures on Complex Systems Addison-Wesley.
25. Graham R, Tél T, (1984-06-01) On the weak-noise limit of fokker-planck models. Journal of Sta- tistical Physics 35: 729-748.
26. Gang H, (1987) Stationary solution of master equations in the large-system-size limit. Phys Rev A 36: 5782-5790.
27. Luchinsky DG, McClintock PVE, Dykman MI, (1998) Analogue studies of nonlinear systems. Rep Prog Phys 61: 889.
28. Bollobás B, (2001) Modern Graph Theory Cambridge University Press.
29. Barabási AL, Albert R, (1999) Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 286: 509-512.
30. Leiserowitz A, Maibach E, Roser-Renouf C, Hmielowski JD, (2011) Politics and global warming: Democrats, republicans, independents, and the tea party. Yale University and George Mason University New Haven, CT Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
31. Sinclair B, (1969) At the turn of a screw: William sellers, the franklin institute, and a standard american thread. Technology and Culture 10.
32. Surowiecki J, (2002) Turn of the century. Wired, Issue 10.01, Available: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/standards.html. Accessed 2012 Feb 18.
33. Lee TB, (2011) The death of flash and the quiet triumph of open standards. Forbes, Available: http://onforb.es/quVd75. Accessed 2012 Feb 18.
34. Chambers N, (2011) Power politics: Competing charging standards could threaten adoption of electric vehicles. Scientific American, Available: http://bit.ly/mHDZ3j. Accessed 2012 Feb 18.
35. Blanco S, (2011) Ecotality's fast-charging units: Good news for leaf owners and (for now) nobody else. New York Times, Automobiles, Available: http://nyti.ms/pQIdJC. Accessed 2012 Feb 18.
36. Csere C, (2011) Electric-car makers' quest: One plug to charge them all. New York Times, Automobiles, Available: http://nyti.ms/oyLQsO. Accessed 2012 Feb 18.
37. Takahashi Y, Maxwell K, (2011) BMW, toyota in partnership. Wall Street Journal, Available: http://on.wsj.com/tsABDe. Accessed 2012 Feb 18.
38. Bunkley N, (2011) Ford and toyota to work together on hybrid system for trucks. New York Times, Business Day, Available: http://nyti.ms/nCALXh. Accessed 2012 Feb 18.
39. Madan A, Farrahi K, Gatica-Perez D, Pentland A, (2011) Pervasive sensing to model political opinions in face-to-face networks. Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Pervasive computing Berlin, Heidelberg Springer-Verlag, Pervasive'11 pp. 214-231.
40. Banerjee A, Chandrasekhar A, Duflo E, Jackson M, (2011) The diffusion of microfinance. MIT working paper.