Netlogo model ` Effect of Network Homophily and Partisanship on Social Media to “Oil Spill” Polarizations’ 1.0.0
This model was utilized for the simulation in the paper titled Effect of Network Homophily and Partisanship on Social Media to “Oil Spill” Polarizations. It allows you to examine whether oil spill polarization occurs through people’s communication under various conditions.
・Choose the network construction conditions you’d like to examine from the “rewire-style” chooser box.
・Select the desired strength of partisanship from the “partisanlevel” chooser box. You can also set the strength manually in the code tab.
・You can set the number of dynamic topics using the “number-of-topics” slider.
・Use the “divers-of-opinion” slider to set the number of preference types for each dynamic topic.
・If “rewire-style” is set to random, you can set the probability that network rewiring will be performed using the “random-rewire-probability” slider.
・You can set the maximum number of steps for each simulation using the “overtimesteps” slider.
・Press the walkthrough button to run the simulation the number of times set in “iterate”.
Upon completion of each simulation, the model outputs a variety of parameters. These include each user’s final preferences, their following group, the similarity of their preferences with followed users, and interaction probabilities. It also outputs overall metrics such as same-q, diff-q, and psi to measure the level of oil spill polarization.
To run the simulation, you’ll need to specify the desired output directory from the code tab.
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