Grupos moderados y tolerantes en la polarización política de las redes sociales

• Autores: José Ignacio García-Valdecasas Medina
• Localización: REIS: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, ISSN 0210-5233, Nº 142, 2013, págs. 25-44
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5477/cis/reis.142.25
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  • español

    Este artículo pretende investigar el tamaño mínimo que debe tener un grupo de individuos moderados y tolerantes para llevar a una red social altamente polarizada e intolerante al consenso político, así como analizar el posible efecto de diferentes propiedades estructurales de las redes (densidad y desigualdad en la distribución de vínculos), y de ciertas propiedades individuales (tolerancia y arraigo de las opiniones políticas) sobre dicho tamaño mínimo. Para ello, se combinan la simulación basada en agentes y el análisis de redes sociales con objeto de realizar experimentos virtuales con redes artifi ciales. Los resultados revelan la existencia de un tamaño mínimo crítico por debajo del cual el consenso político es prácticamente imposible, y ponen de manifi esto que dicho tamaño depende acusadamente de diversas propiedades estructurales e individuales

  • English

    This paper attempts to research the minimum size which a moderate and tolerant group of individuals should have in order to lead an extremely intolerant and polarised social network to achieve political consensus. It also analyses the potential effect of different structural properties of networks (density and inequality of link distribution), and certain individual properties (tolerance and entrenchment of political opinions) on that minimum size. To do so, it combines agent-based modelling and social network analysis in order to carry out virtual experiments with artifi cial networks. The results reveal the existence of a minimum, critical size under which political consensus is hardly ever achieved, as well as showing that such size depends heavily on various structural and individual properties.

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