A double-identity rumor spreading model

Dong, Xuefan; Liu, Yijun; Wu, Chenglong; Lian, Ying; Tang, Daisheng

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.121479

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“…Li et al (2015) identified the invariant characteristic that the followers' count of users obeys a power-law distribution with an exponent almost equal to 2 by empirically studying 10 million user profiles on the largest Chinese microblog, Sina Weibo, and 41.7 million profiles on Twitter [36]. Moreover, rumors are known to spread faster in scale-free networks, which are also called BA networks, than in small-world networks [37].…”

Section: Health Status Subnetworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling and Simulating Online Panic in an Epidemic Complexity System: An Agent‐Based Approach

Guo

Sheng

2021

Complexity

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Following the outbreak of a disease, panic often spreads on online forums, which seriously affects normal economic operations as well as epidemic prevention procedures. Online panic is often manifested earlier than in the real world, leading to an aggravated social response from citizens. This paper conducts sentiment analysis on more than 80,000 comments about COVID-19 obtained from the Chinese Internet and identifies patterns within them. Based on this analysis, we propose an agent-based model consisting of two parts—a revised SEIR model to simulate an offline epidemic and a scale-free network to simulate the Internet community. This model is then used to analyze the effects of the social distancing policy. Assuming the existence of such a policy, online panic is simulated corresponding to different informatization levels. The results indicate that increased social informatization levels lead to substantial online panic during disease outbreaks. To reduce the economic impact of epidemics, we discuss different strategies for releasing information on the epidemic. Our conclusions indicate that announcing the number of daily new cases or the number of asymptomatic people following the peak of symptomatic infections could help to reduce the intensity of online panic and delay the peak of panic. In turn, this can be expected to keep social production more orderly and reduce the impact of social responses on the economy.

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Section: Health Status Subnetworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling and Simulating Online Panic in an Epidemic Complexity System: An Agent‐Based Approach

Guo

Sheng

2021

Complexity

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“…Creator's identity is primarily explained in the context of individuals dealing with particular areas: profit-or nonprofit oriented organization creator (Fauchart & Gruber, 2011;Giacomin et al, 2007), classical artse.g., literature creator (Ottery, 2006), music creator (Tillay & Chapman, 2019), new artse.g., anime creator (Reysen et al, 2020), social media content creator (Arriagada & Ibáñez, 2020;Maynard, 2021;Mehta & Kaye, 2019), religious institution creator (Jones & Massa, 2013), fake-news or rumor creator (Dong et al, 2019). Academics emphasize the fluctuating contexts and necessity for regulation to these deviations.…”

Section: Creator's Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does entrepreneurial factor influence creative identities' perception?

Szostak¹

2021

JESI

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The interdisciplinary research on the perception of entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, creators, and artists by individuals with and without entrepreneurial identity brings significant conclusions for understanding the way of thinking of entrepreneurs, their internal features, and motivations of their decisions. For this purpose, an international quantitative examination (n = 160) was undertaken. The research displayed that individuals with and without entrepreneurial identity perceive entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, creators, and artists statistically similar (the hypotheses were confirmed using the chi-square test of independence devoted to small samples without a normal distribution at p < 0.001). The negative verification of the hypotheses was astonishment and should be perceived as a novelty in the investigated area. The novelty can be perceived as an entrepreneurial potential existing in each individual (similar perception of the creative identities) that requires a specific spark and a fuel. The supplementary qualitative analysis of the variances among the 50 features constituting the investigated identities revealed that individuals with and without entrepreneurial identity see particular features of the investigated identities somewhat differently. Analysis of these differences was made, and the most important, the least important, and the most equally perceived were described and illustrated in detail. The results were discussed with the literature on the subject, confirming most other researchers' theses and revealing some contradictions. The conclusions reveal characteristics of an entrepreneur's identity perception by individuals with and without entrepreneurial factors and the meaning of all investigated identities in an entrepreneur's identity. The research outcomes may be used to understand the qualities of entrepreneurial identity and the perception of investigated identities by individuals, groups (with particular underlining of business organizations), and societies dominated by persons with and without entrepreneurial factors. The applicability of the findings is broad, mainly due to the crucial role of entrepreneurship in today's world as potential in each individual. Particular triggers should be catalyzed instead of looking for entrepreneurial individuals. The education process of entrepreneurs should focus on revealing entrepreneurial potential underlining the role of inspiration, and discovering the motifs of entrepreneurial activity.

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“…Thus the prevalent phenomena can be understood from the same ground as Figure (1) and 1when we classify the people into two groups of society for the introducer of innovation and its adopter and consider the interacting duality of those societies. Thus the burst phenomenon including the prevalence, in general, can be treated as the interacting phenomenon taking place between the systems with the duality, by which methodology we can understand the epidemic diffusion, and the prevalence of attitude, thoughts and rumors [29][30][31][32][33][34]. Figure 1, the innovators correspond to the external events, the early adopters to the primary, real field, and the remainder to the secondary, cyber field.…”

Section: Burst In the Cyber World And Prevalence Phenomenamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When the direct contact between people is restricted in the real world owing to the exchange of information in the cyber world, the introduction of such a model seems to be effective for preventing the expansion of epidemics in case of their prevalence. Improving such a type of dual model, Wang et al [39], Dong et al [31], Yi et al [32], and Wang et al [33] have introduced dual type models where agents have different characteristics in the two worlds from each other to discuss the diffusion of epidemics and rumors. Although in these models the topological structure of the network was assumed unchanged with time, Lee et al [34] assumed in their epidemic model the characteristics of agents changing with the propagation of epidemics, which induce the change of network structure, that is the topology in the real world.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Interactive Dual Fields of Information Explain the Prevalent Phenomena

Ohnishi¹

2019

AJPA

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The occurrence of prevalent phenomena is an almost unclear but interesting subject for us. Here we have constructed a dual model of information fields originated from the news media and showed that the quasi-cyclic appearance of prevalence can be explained by such a model. The homogeneous field of information around us was assumed, which is composed of the real field originated from the primary media such as newspapers and the television, and the cyber field from the PC and smart phones. The latter field is of the SNS cyber world affected by the field of real world. The public was assumed to be influenced simultaneously by these two types of fields to result in the enhancement of the awareness of some specific things. To investigate the viability of such a dual model, inputting the data of the real field regarding the global warming (GW) already reported in Japan as an external variable, the feature was derived in what manner the public awareness of GW had varied during the past ~35 years. The high public awareness was found to be realized at around 2009 when the information environment was explosively enhanced in the real world. Such enhancement of the awareness could be explained by the contribution from the cyber field, which was brought by the instability of the field, or a burst, induced by a small perturbation from the real field. A possibility was pointed out that the spontaneous occurrence of quasi-cyclic instability such as the case of our explosive awareness could take place in the interactive dual system of information between the real and cyber fields. We pointed out that the spontaneous occurrence of prevalence in general could be explained also by the similar mechanism as ours.

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A double-identity rumor spreading model

Cited by 25 publications

References 30 publications

Modeling and Simulating Online Panic in an Epidemic Complexity System: An Agent‐Based Approach

Modeling and Simulating Online Panic in an Epidemic Complexity System: An Agent‐Based Approach

Does entrepreneurial factor influence creative identities' perception?

Can Interactive Dual Fields of Information Explain the Prevalent Phenomena

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