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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…
Asymmetric access to information impacts the power-law exponent in networks
Zhenfeng Cao, Zhou He, Neil F. Johnson
The preferential attachment (PA) process is a popular theory for explaining network power-law degree distributions. In PA, the probability that a new vertex adds an edge to an exis…
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…
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…