3 papers
cs.SI2021
A Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics on Hypergraphs
Abigail Hickok, Yacoub Kureh, Heather Z. Brooks +2
People's opinions evolve over time as they interact with their friends, family, colleagues, and others. In the study of opinion dynamics on networks, one often encodes interactions…
q-bio.OT2020
Disease Detectives: Using Mathematics to Forecast the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Heather Z. Brooks, Unchitta Kanjanasaratool, Yacoub H. Kureh +1
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in how people are currently living their lives. To determine how to best reduce the effects of the pandemic and start reopening…
physics.soc-ph2019
A Model for the Influence of Media on the Ideology of Content in Online Social Networks
Heather Z. Brooks, Mason A. Porter
Many people rely on online social networks as sources of news and information, and the spread of media content with ideologies across the political spectrum influences online discu…