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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…
Generalized Gelation Theory describes Human Online Aggregation in support of Extremism
Pedro D. Manrique, Minzhang Zheng, Zhenfeng Cao +1
Though many aggregation theories exist for physical, chemical and biological systems, they do not account for the significant heterogeneity found, for example, in populations of li…
Individual heterogeneity generates explosive system network dynamics
Pedro D. Manrique, Neil F. Johnson
Individual heterogeneity is a key characteristic of many real-world systems, from organisms to humans. However its role in determining the system's collective dynamics is typically…
Multiscale dynamical network mechanisms underlying aging from birth to death
M. Zheng, Z. Cao, Y. Vorobyeva +3
How self-organized networks develop, mature and degenerate is a key question for sociotechnical, cyberphysical and biological systems with potential applications from tackling viol…