Opinion dynamics: kinetic modelling with mass media, application to the Scottish independence referendum

DOI10.1016/j.physa.2015.10.014zbMath1400.91414OpenAlexW1748251513MaRDI QIDQ1619040

Francesco Salvarani, Laurent Boudin

Publication date: 13 November 2018

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2015.10.014

zbMATH Keywords

kinetic equationsopinion formationmass media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10)

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