Do Stubborn Users Always Cause More Polarization and Disagreement? A Mathematical Study
We study how the stubbornness of social network users influences opinion polarization and disagreement. Our work is in the context of the popular Friedkin-Johnson opinion formation model, where users update their opinion as a function of the opinion of their connections and their own innate opinion. Stubbornness then is formulated in terms of the stress a user puts on its innate opinion.
Authors
- Ahad N. Zehmakan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8569-6347)
- Mohammad Shirzadi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2104-4726)
Institutions
- Australian National University (AU)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3701551.3703510
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.29