Signs of criticality in social explosions

• Main Authors: Beiró, Mariano G., Chung, Ning Ning, Chew, Lock Yue, Gandica, Yérali
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Computer and Information Science; Social behavior; Social media
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174942
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The success of an on-line movement could be defined in terms of the shift to large-scale and the later off-line massive street actions of protests. The role of social media in this process is to facilitate the transformation from small or local feelings of disagreement into large-scale social action...