look at 'dynamic social impact theory' ... Bibb Latane. There was a paper in
Gilbert and Doran, Simulating Societies, UCL Press, about 1994? Nice
emergent stuff.
Alan
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> Subject: Simulation of interpersonal communication during voting
> campaigns
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>
> Hi SimSoc,
> I m currently working on a computational model simulating attitude
> formation of agents facing voting campaigns and mass media input.
> As a next
> step, I plan to extent the model by embedding the agents into a social
> environment.
>
> I ve the following question:
> - Does anybody know about computer models implementing interpersonal
> communication about political issues during voting campaigns (or some
> related stuff)?
>
> Thanks for reply in advance.
> Niels Weigelt
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