Wenn Du gehst, geh ich auch! Die Rolle von Informationskaskaden bei der Entstehung von Massenbewegungen

Klein, Dominik; Marx, Johannes

doi:10.5771/0032-3470-2017-4-560

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“…However, social activation does not mean that people are not concerned at all and only join because they want to meet their friends on the street. Instead, the presence of people they know may raise one's faith in the protest's success or even a sense of safety when protesting, as Klein and Marx (2018) suggest. Once the protest has consolidated in numbers of protesters, the socially motivated ones also become genuinely concerned (starting from step 36).…”

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On the Fate of Protests: Dynamics of Social Activation and Topic Selection Online and in the Streets

Asgharpourmasouleh

Fattahzadeh

Mayerhoffer

et al. 2019

Computational Social Sciences

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This chapter studies individual and network conditions for the emergence of large social protests in an agent-based model. We use two recent examples from Iran and Germany to inform the modeling process. In our agent-based model, people, who are interconnected in networks, interact and exchange their concerns on a finite number of topics. They may start to protest either because of their concern or because the fraction of protesters in their social contacts exceeds their protest threshold. In contrast to many other models of social protest, we also study the coevolution of topics of concern in the not (yet) protesting public. Given that often a small number of citizens starts a protest, its fate depends not only on the dynamics of social activation but also on the buildup of concern with respect to competing topics. Nowadays, this buildup happens decentralized through social media. The model reproduces characteristic patterns of the evolution of the two empirical cases of social protests in Iran and Germany. In particular, our results show that positions of agents with certain concern levels on certain topics within the networks are important for the fate of protests.

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Section: The Iran Case In the Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Fate of Protests: Dynamics of Social Activation and Topic Selection Online and in the Streets

Asgharpourmasouleh

Fattahzadeh

Mayerhoffer

et al. 2019

Computational Social Sciences

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“…Lohmann (1994) modifies the Granovetter and the Kuran model to focus on participation in a street protest as a costly political action that reveals information on how likely protesters deem political change. Klein and Marx (2018) pursue a similar idea but focus on explicit conversational information exchange between agents and asymmetric learning as a driving factor for the formation of mass movements. In their model, agents have a certain level of grievance and develop expectations of how likely political change is.…”

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Computational Conflict Research

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Nardin³

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Computational Social Sciences

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“…Most intuitively, these are individual people in their function as e.g. citizens (Klein & Marx 2017), voters (Fowler & Smirnov 2005), moral subjects (Hegselmann & Will 2010), consumers (Scalco et al 2019), or employees (Pluchino et al 2010). Moreover, a collective entity that one ABM treats as an agent in its analysis of some higher-level system may thus be the system level of another ABM, which specifically studies the emergence of the said collective entity from the interaction of its members.…”

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One Model, Multiple Stories? Using Agent-Based Models to Unveil Structural Similarities in a Complex World

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The doctoral thesis argues that such transfer of the structure of an Agent-Based-Model from one real world application to another is indeed possible by means of story adaptation to the new application case. If successful, the transfer benefits research in two ways: (I) It improves efficiency for modellers and readers alike; (II) it can reveal structural similarity between these cases and help to assess the extent of this structural similarity. Therefore, structure transfer is no mere auxiliary to Agent-Based Modelling but an independent scientific endeavour. However, such endeavour may also fail or mislead in the sense that an identified structural similarity between two modelled situations does not exist. Hence, model structure transfer requires a careful execution.

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Wenn Du gehst, geh ich auch! Die Rolle von Informationskaskaden bei der Entstehung von Massenbewegungen

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

On the Fate of Protests: Dynamics of Social Activation and Topic Selection Online and in the Streets

On the Fate of Protests: Dynamics of Social Activation and Topic Selection Online and in the Streets

Computational Conflict Research

One Model, Multiple Stories? Using Agent-Based Models to Unveil Structural Similarities in a Complex World

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