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Shockwaves and turbulence across social media
Pedro D. Manrique, Frank Huo, Sara El Oud +3
Online communities featuring 'anti-X' hate and extremism, somehow thrive online despite moderator pressure. We present a first-principles theory of their dynamics, which accounts f…
Toward a Unified Understanding of Casualty Distributions in Human Conflict
Michael Spagat, Stijn van Weezel, Minzhang Zheng +1
We are able to unify various disparate claims and results in the literature, that stand in the way of a unified description and understanding of human conflict. First, we provide a…
Social media cluster dynamics create resilient global hate highways
N. F. Johnson, R. Leahy, N. Johnson Restrepo +3
Online social media allows individuals to cluster around common interests - including hate. We show that tight-knit social clusters interlink to form resilient 'global hate highway…
Online human aggregation under pressure moves beyond preferential attachment
Zhenfeng Cao, Minzhang Zheng, Pedro D. Manrique +2
There is a significant amount of online human activity which is either clandestine or illicit in nature, and hence where individuals operate under fear of exposure or capture. Yet…
Population polarization dynamics and next-generation social media algorithms
N. F. Johnson, P. Manrique, M. Zheng +8
We present a many-body theory that explains and reproduces recent observations of population polarization dynamics, is supported by controlled human experiments, and addresses the…
Dynamical patterns in individual trajectories toward extremism
Z. Cao, M. Zheng, Y. Vorobyeva +2
Society faces a fundamental global problem of understanding which individuals are currently developing strong support for some extremist entity such as ISIS (Islamic State) -- even…