Glikstein, Ezequiel Dan2020-08-272019-112019-12-182019Glikstein, Ezequiel Dan. 2019. Towards a General Purpose Political Communications Simulator. Master's thesis, Harvard Extension School.https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37364570This 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.application/pdfInformation modellingMedia effectsattitude diffusioninformation diffusionThesis or Dissertation2020-08-27