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, Como, Giacomo, Fagnani, Fabio, Ozdaglar, Asuman E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82602
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1827-1285
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491