2010/10/10 by Friedrich August, August, Friedrich, Philippe Blanchard +7
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) #cs.SI #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1010.1953
references added concerning previous work of S. Galam
arxiv created 2010/11/02 · arxiv updated 2010/11/03
We discuss some social contagion processes to describe the formation and spread of radical opinions. The dynamics of opinion spread involves local threshold processes as well as mean field effects. We calculate and observe phase transitions in the dynamical variables resulting in a rapidly increasing number of passive supporters. This strongly indicates that military solutions are inappropriate.