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Learning Social Influence with Unobserved Attention
William Thompson, Moyi Tian, Linh Huynh +4
Social influence, the tendency of our social environment to sway our beliefs and behaviors, is often cited as a driver of population-level trends in opinions or beliefs. Many quant…
Modeling Social Systems: Transparency, Reproducibility, and Responsibility
Maximino Aldana, Roni Barak Ventura, Heather Z. Brooks +13
Mathematical models of complex social systems can enrich social scientific theory, inform interventions, and shape policy. From voting behavior to economic inequality and urban dev…
An "Opinion Reproduction Number" for Infodemics in a Bounded-Confidence Content-Spreading Process on Networks
Heather Z. Brooks, Mason A. Porter
We study the spreading dynamics of content on networks. To do this, we use a model in which content spreads through a bounded-confidence mechanism. In a bounded-confidence model (B…
Data science and social justice in the mathematics community
Quindel Jones, Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez, Ariana Mendible +5
Data science for social justice (DS4SJ) is data-scientific work that supports the liberation of oppressed and marginalized people. By nature, this work lies at the intersection of…
A tutorial on networks in social systems: A mathematical modeling perspective
Heather Z. Brooks
This article serves as an introduction to the study of networks of social systems. First, we introduce the reader to key mathematical tools to study social networks, including math…
Emergence of polarization in a sigmoidal bounded-confidence model of opinion dynamics
Heather Z. Brooks, Philip S. Chodrow, Mason A. Porter
We study a nonlinear bounded-confidence model (BCM) of continuous-time opinion dynamics on networks with both persuadable individuals and zealots. The model is parameterized by a s…
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…
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…
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…