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 …
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, …
In this article, we will investigate how protests spread spatially and take a closer look at the cluster of colours that we observed during the experiments. First, we will describe …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Welcome back! This week introduces spatial dimension to the models. We will also introduce the term Agent-Based Models and interact with a simple simulation in NetLogo. Furthermore, you will investigate …
In this interview Wander Jager, Director of the Groningen Center for Social Complexity Studies, explains how modelling and simulations can help in making decisions.