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Relative increase of prejudice IP (t) = 1 − P (0) P (t)

Relative increase of prejudice IP (t) = 1 − P (0) P (t)

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Fig. 1. Evolution of the distribution of attitude in Online and offline...
Fig. 3. Extremism indicator during iterations. Left panel: offline....
Fig. 5. Initial bias α = 0.5. Evolution of the distribution of...
Fig. 6. Relative increase of prejudice IP (t) = 1 − P (0) P (t)
Regular access to constantly renewed online content favors radicalization of opinions
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  • May 2023
Worry over polarization has grown alongside the digital information consumption revolution. Where most scientific work considered user-generated and user-disseminated (i.e.,~Web 2.0) content as the culprit, the potential of purely increased access to information (or Web 1.0) has been largely overlooked. Here, we suggest that the shift to Web 1.0 al...
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... simulations. Figure 6 shows the relative increase of prejudice I P (t) for different values of β and for a prior belief α = 0.5. In the online setting, the figure shows the results for 3 values of the bias in the choice of the items γ ∈ {0, 0.2, 0.4}. ...