Phase transition in opinion diffusion in social networks

Lin Li; Anna Scaglione; Ananthram Swami; Qing Zhao

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288564

Phase transition in opinion diffusion in social networks

Lin Li, Anna Scaglione, Ananthram Swami, Qing Zhao

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Abstract

Gossiping models have been increasingly applied to study social network phenomena, in particular, to model the dynamics of social behavior or belief through local interactions. In this context, this paper investigates how the opinions of social agents diffuse in a network under a so-called hard-interaction model, in which the agents interact more strongly with neighbors that share their beliefs and have no influence on the neighbors whose opinions differ by more than a threshold. We analyze the convergence properties of the opinion dynamics and provide analytical insights to characterize the phase transition from a society of radicalized opinions to one of convergent behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Proceedings
Pages	3073-3076
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288564
State	Published - Oct 23 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: Mar 25 2012 → Mar 30 2012

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Name	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)	1520-6149

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Other	2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	3/25/12 → 3/30/12

Keywords

herding
opinion diffusion
opinion dynamics
phase transition
social networks

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Software
Signal Processing
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Li, L., Scaglione, A., Swami, A., & Zhao, Q. (2012). Phase transition in opinion diffusion in social networks. In 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Proceedings (pp. 3073-3076). Article 6288564 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288564

Phase transition in opinion diffusion in social networks. / Li, Lin; Scaglione, Anna; Swami, Ananthram et al.
2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Proceedings. 2012. p. 3073-3076 6288564 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

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Li, L, Scaglione, A, Swami, A & Zhao, Q 2012, Phase transition in opinion diffusion in social networks. in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Proceedings., 6288564, ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 3073-3076, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan, 3/25/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288564

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