Acemoglu, Daron; Como, Giacomo; Fagnani, Fabio; … - 2010
We study a stochastic gossip model of continuous opinion dynamics in a society consisting of two types of agents … influence the beliefs in the rest of the society. When the society contains stubborn agents with different opinions, opinion …-run disagreement and continuous opinion fluctuations. The structure of the social network and the location of stubborn agents within it …