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20172024
most citedNarrative structure of A Song of Ice and Fire creates a fictional world with realistic measures of social complexity

24 citations · 47 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.SI2024

Identity Emergence in the Context of Vaccine Criticism in France

Melody Sepahpour-Fard, Michael Quayle, Padraig MacCarron +2

This study investigates the emergence of collective identity among individuals critical of vaccination policies in France during the COVID-19 pandemic. As concerns grew over mandat…

cs.SI2024★ 3 cited

Interconnected Kingdoms: Comparing 'A Song of Ice and Fire' Adaptations Across Media Using Complex Networks

Arthur Amalvy, Madeleine Janickyj, Shane Mannion +2

In this article, we propose and apply a method to compare adaptations of the same story across different media. We tackle this task by modelling such adaptations through character…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Female representation across mythologies

M. Janickyj, P. MacCarron, J. Yose +1

Social groups have been studied throughout history to understand how different configurations impact those within them. Along with this came the interest in investigating social gr…

physics.soc-ph2024

Fast degree-preserving rewiring of complex networks

Shane Mannion, Padraig MacCarron, Akrati Saxena +1

In this paper we introduce a new, fast, degree-preserving rewiring algorithm for altering the assortativity of complex networks, which we call \textit{Fast total link (FTL) rewirin…

physics.soc-ph2023

The extraordinary story of Sinann -- the inspirational figure who gave her name to Ireland longest river -- and how she arose Ireland's resilient female icons

Ralph Kenna, Chris Thompson, Isolde Ó Brolcháin Carmody +7

When local authorities recently selected a neoclassical male "river god head" of colonial origin to represent Ireland's longest river, it was welcomed as "harking back to Irish myt…

physics.soc-ph2023

"The greatest Poet that has [n]ever existed" -- A Narrative Networks Analysis of the Poems of Ossian

Ralph Kenna, Padraig MacCarron, Thierry Platini +2

Surprising as it may seem, applications of statistical methods to physics were inspired by the social sciences, which in turn are linked to the humanities. So perhaps it is not as…