Publication: Towards a General Purpose Political Communications Simulator
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2019-12-18
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Glikstein, Ezequiel Dan. 2019. Towards a General Purpose Political Communications Simulator. Master's thesis, Harvard Extension School.
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This thesis introduces a novel way of structuring information for agent-based simulations which is inherently multi-dimensional and multi-issue, along with being flexible and easily extensible. By modelling information in this fashion, agents are able to accumulate knowledge and compute attitudes. A sample study shows how this may be used to simulate attitudes towards the US President following a news report that he bombed Syria.
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Information modelling, Media effects, attitude diffusion, information diffusion
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