Towards a General Purpose Political Communications Simulator

Information modelling;Media effects;attitude diffusion;information diffusion

Glikstein, Ezequiel Dan

University:Havard University

Department:International Relations

关键词: Information modelling;    Media effects;    attitude diffusion;    information diffusion;   

Others  :  https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/37364570/GLIKSTEIN-DOCUMENT-2019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

美国|英语

来源: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

【 摘 要 】

This thesis introduces a novel way of structuring information for agent-based simulations which is inherently multi-dimensional and multi-issue, along with being flexible and easily extensible. By modelling information in this fashion, agents are able to accumulate knowledge and compute attitudes. A sample study shows how this may be used to simulate attitudes towards the US President following a news report that he bombed Syria.