| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 74, Number 2, April 2006
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 222 - 228 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10536-9 | |
| Published online | 29 March 2006 | |
How to make an efficient propaganda
1
Département des Mathématiques FUNDP rempart de la Vierge 8, B 5000 Namur, Belgium
2
Dipartimento di Energetica, Università di Firenze and INFN via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
3
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute SE-17771 Stockholm, Sweden
4
Université de la Polynésie Française, BP 6570 Faa'a, 98702 Tahiti, French Polynesia
Received:
13
December
2005
Accepted:
27
February
2006
The effects of propaganda are analyzed in an opinion dynamics model in which, under certain conditions, individuals adjust their opinion as a result of random binary encounters. The aim of this paper is to study under what conditions propaganda changes the opinion dynamics of a social system. Four different scenarios are found, characterized by different sensitivities to the propaganda. For each scenario the maximum efficiency of propaganda is attained following a given strategy that is here outlined.
PACS: 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and chaos / 89.65.-s – Social and economic systems
© EDP Sciences, 2006
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