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Opinion Contagion: What is to be Learnt from a Simulation Model?
2006
Review of Sociology
The paper introduces a simulation, which was developed by Michael Krassa to model the opinion contagion. Krassa developed his model by using the theory of the spiral of silence that says that the perception of the public opinion influences the opinion assertion of the people and the threshold models that show how much support one person needs for the public assertion of his opinion. With the help of these relationships Krassa integrated the social networks in his model. We applied Krassa's
doi:10.1556/revsoc.12.2006.1.4
fatcat:tvedkpkssrfdznqtsth4kwwxvi