Multi-agent Modeling and Simulation on Group Polarization Behavior in Web 2.0

Journal of Networks

关键词: Simulation;    System Science;    CAS;    Multi-Agent;    Group Polarization;   

Others  :  1016829
DOI  :  10.4304/jnw.9.8.2003-2012

【 摘 要 】

Under the specific environment of Web 2.0, the formation of Internet users’ opinions online has been impacted a lot. While prior researches do not thoroughly explain the crucial factors to influence group opinion polarization on the Internet. This paper contributes to the literatures, first, by abstracting and integrating key influential factors to group polarization behavior, which are divided by three dimensions: individual, group and topic. Second, establish group polarization model based on multi-agent and after simulation, we find out how these co-determined factors comprehensively affect the performance and which factor influences this behavior most. Additionally, we simulate out the threshold value to generate group polarization behavior in this system, which is 0.2. These results give relative references and implications for further study.

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