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most citedDiscerning media bias within a network of political allies and opponents: the idealized example of a biased coin

6 citations · 14 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

physics.soc-ph2025

How trust networks shape students' opinions about the proficiency of artificially intelligent assistants

Yutong Bu, Andrew Melatos, Robin Evans

The rising use of educational tools controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) has provoked a debate about their proficiency. While intrinsic proficiency, especially in tasks such…

physics.soc-ph2025

Discerning media bias within a network of political allies: an analytic condition for disruption by partisans

Jarra Horstman, Andrew Melatos, Farhad Farokhi

An individual's opinion concerning political bias in the media is shaped by exogenous factors (independent analysis of media outputs) and endogenous factors (social activity, e.g.…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 4 cited

Discerning media bias within a network of political allies and opponents: Disruption by partisans

Yutong Bu, Andrew Melatos

An individual's opinions about media bias derive from their own independent assessment of media outputs combined with peer pressure from networked political allies and opponents. H…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 4 cited

Vacillating about media bias: changing one's mind intermittently within a network of political allies and opponents

Nicholas Kah Yean Low, Andrew Melatos

One form of long-term behavior revealed by opinion dynamics simulations is intermittency, where an individual cycles between eras of stable, constant beliefs and turbulent, fluctua…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 6 cited

Discerning media bias within a network of political allies and opponents: the idealized example of a biased coin

Nicholas Kah Yean Low, Andrew Melatos

Perceptions of political bias in the media are formed directly, through the independent consumption of the published outputs of a media organization, and indirectly, through observ…