Imitating and influencing others
Welcome back! This week is about exploring how relations and networks impact social processes. It provides a quick glance at Social Network Analysis. Quite often the more people do something, …
Course: People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics
With a little influence from my friends
In this video we will explore a process where people are deciding whether to join a protest or not based on what their friends are doing. In the previous week, …
Experimenting with the Grapevine protest
In this video we will make one step further with the Grapevine protest: we will look at the whole network of relations between its inhabitants and examine how the process …
Between intentions and actions
In this video we will analyse what happened in the four villages and summarise the results. We will see how it is not so easy to predict what will happen …
The Mechanism Behind Social Protests
In this article, we will deal with a situation where we know the results, namely the size of the protest, and on the basis of this knowledge we try to …
Cherryville as a Protest Model
As an example of a protest model, Cherryville is probably bigger than those you may have seen and needs some kind of a larger scale model. In this article, we …
What is the butterfly effect?
Sometimes small changes in a situation can lead to big changes in the final result. For example, sometimes it takes just one person to change his or her attitude in …
Universal models
In this video we will see how the same model can be used for investigating different processes provided they share the same underlying mechanism. In short, we will be discussing …
Wrap up of Week 1
Well done, you have completed the first week of the course. We hope you enjoyed learning with us so far. You did a lot this week: you started with the …
The Cherryville Protest Model
In this article, we are going to describe the model developed in order to study the Cherryville protest in more detail putting stress on the process of modelling itself. Now …
Social Process Models
We open this step with one main observation – that social processes are quite hard to predict and are thus difficult to model. Sometimes changes happen where we wouldn’t expect …
The Simplified Nature of Threshold Modelling
In this step we will focus our attention on the residents of Fruit County. Threshold Models are Very Simplified You have probably noticed that in threshold models people tend to …
The protests in Cherryville
In this video you will meet the inhabitants of Cherryville and you will accompany them in their protests. Then we are going to describe the spatial model developed in order …
Agent-Based Models
In this step we would like to say something more about the type of models typically used for basic simulations. These models tend to be quite simple examples of a …
Agent-based models in practice
As we said there are a lot of examples of applications of agent-based models. Some models are used to understand a basic mechanism of social behaviour, others are used to …
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