An overview of structurally complex network-based modeling of public opinion in the “We the Media” era

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (13) ◽  
pp. 1830006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanghui Wang ◽  
Yufei Wang ◽  
Yijun Liu ◽  
Yuxue Chi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Network Modeling ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Network Modeling ◽  
The Media ◽  
Point To Point ◽  
Dynamic Network Modeling

As the transmission of public opinion on the Internet in the “We the Media” era tends to be supraterritorial, concealed and complex, the traditional “point-to-surface” transmission of information has been transformed into “point-to-point” reciprocal transmission. A foundation for studies of the evolution of public opinion and its transmission on the Internet in the “We the Media” era can be laid by converting the massive amounts of fragmented information on public opinion that exists on “We the Media” platforms into structurally complex networks of information. This paper describes studies of structurally complex network-based modeling of public opinion on the Internet in the “We the Media” era from the perspective of the development and evolution of complex networks. The progress that has been made in research projects relevant to the structural modeling of public opinion on the Internet is comprehensively summarized. The review considers aspects such as regular grid-based modeling of the rules that describe the propagation of public opinion on the Internet in the “We the Media” era, social network modeling, dynamic network modeling, and supernetwork modeling. Moreover, an outlook for future studies that address complex network-based modeling of public opinion on the Internet is put forward as a summary from the perspective of modeling conducted using the techniques mentioned above.

Data-Driven Dynamic Network Modeling for Analyzing the Evolution of Product Competitions

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Xie ◽  
Youyi Bi ◽  
Zhenghui Sha ◽  
Mingxian Wang ◽  
Yan Fu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Random Graph ◽  
Network Modeling ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Exponential Random Graph Model ◽  
Random Graph Model ◽  
Exponential Random Graph ◽  
Dynamic Network Modeling ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Understanding the impact of engineering design on product competitions is imperative for product designers to better address customer needs and develop more competitive products. In this paper, we propose a dynamic network-based approach for modeling and analyzing the evolution of product competitions using multi-year buyer survey data. The product co-consideration network, formed based on the likelihood of two products being co-considered from survey data, is treated as a proxy of products’ competition relations in a market. The separate temporal exponential random graph model (STERGM) is employed as the dynamic network modeling technique to model the evolution of network as two separate processes: link formation and link dissolution. We use China’s automotive market as a case study to illustrate the implementation of the proposed approach and the benefits of dynamic network models compared to the static network modeling approach based on an exponential random graph model (ERGM). The results show that since STERGM takes preexisting competition relations into account, it provides a pathway to gain insights into why a product may maintain or lose its competitiveness over time. These driving factors include both product attributes (e.g., fuel consumption) as well as current market structures (e.g., the centralization effect). With the proposed dynamic network-based approach, the insights gained from this paper can help designers better interpret the temporal changes of product competition relations to support product design decisions.

Public Opinion, Political Communication and the Internet

Politics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Savigny
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Potential Challenge

In contemporary society public opinion is generally mediated by the mass media, which has come to encompass the Habermasian ‘public sphere’. This arena is now characterised by the conflict between market and democratic principles, by competing interests of politicians and the media. The presentation of information for debate becomes distorted. The opinion of the ‘public’ is no longer created through deliberation, but is constructed through systems of communication, in conflict with political actors, who seek to retain control of the dissemination of information. The expansion of the internet as a new method of communication provides a potential challenge to the primacy of the traditional media and political parties as formers of public opinion.

scholarly journals New types of experimental data shape the use of enzyme kinetics for dynamic network modeling

FEBS Journal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 281 (2) ◽  
pp. 549-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Tummler ◽  
Timo Lubitz ◽  
Max Schelker ◽  
Edda Klipp
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Enzyme Kinetics ◽  
Network Modeling ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
Dynamic Network Modeling

scholarly journals Poverty and the media : mainstream newspaper coverage of anti-poverty activism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Butler
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
North America ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
First Century ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Mass Media

In the twenty-first century, the mass media is increasingly seen as having a very pervasive influence: the extent and reach if it simply cannot be ignored. In communities large and small, and in countries all over the world, the mass media has the ability to set agendas and influence public opinion. In North America, the mass media is particularly ubiquitous; from television, to the internet, to newspapers, it has become difficult to avoid mass media products.

Chinese Public Opinion and the Interest Frontiers

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-169
Author(s):  
Andrea Ghiselli
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
The Media ◽  
Chinese Public ◽  
Western Democracies

Although it is not as decisive a factor as it is in Western democracies, the space for Chinese public opinion to influence foreign policy has grown over the years thanks to the population’s greater access to the Internet, the diversification of the media, and the simple fact that today’s Chinese leaders are not revolutionary heroes. While domestic public opinion cannot shape the country’s foreign policy on issues related to China’s “core interests”—the commanding role of the Chinese Communist Party and the country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty—the situation is different when the discussion is less sensitive. The Chinese approach to North Africa and the Middle East is one of those topics. Hence, this chapter looks at how online Chinese public opinion influenced the domestic narrative on protecting the country’s overseas interests. It exposes a contested environment where the actions and the narrative put forward by policymakers were often under pressure as Chinese citizens favored a more muscular approach to defending the country’s overseas interests.

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