Opinion fluctuations and persistent disagreement in social networks

Opinion fluctuations and persistent disagreement in social networks

We study a tractable opinion dynamics model that generates long-run disagreements and persistent opinion fluctuations. Our model involves an inhomogeneous stochastic gossip process of continuous opinion dynamics in a society consisting of two types of agents: regular agents, who update their beliefs...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron (Contributor), Como, Giacomo (Author), Fagnani, Fabio (Author), Ozdaglar, Asuman E. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013-11-26T21:02:54Z.
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