Generalized Gelation Theory Describes Onset of Online Extremist Support.

摘要: We introduce a generalized form of gelation theory that incorporates individual heterogeneity and show it can explain the asynchronous, sudden appearance growth online extremist groups supporting ISIS (so-called Islamic State) emerged globally post-2014. The predicts how impacts their onset times profiles suggests present broad distribution heterogeneity-dependent aggregation mechanisms centered around homophily. good agreement between empirical data existing strategies aiming to defeat extremism under assumption is driven by few "bad apples" are misguided. More generally, this should apply range real-world systems featuring among heterogeneous objects.