Social explosions: some percolating properties

MARIANO G. BEIRO; CHUNG, NING NING; CHEW, LOCK YUE; LANSING, STEVE; THURNER, STEFAN; GANDICA, YÉRALI

Palma de Mallorca

Conferencia; Conference on Complex Systems 2022; 2022

Complex Systems Society

The success of an on-line movement could be defined in terms of the shift of scale and the later massive off-line protest. The role of the social media in this process is to facilitate the transformation between small or local feelings of disagreement into large-scale social actions. The way how social media achieves that effect is growing clusters of people and groups with similar effervescent feelings, which in other case would be never in communication by several constraints, as for instance, geographical distance.Society is the emergent result from the interaction between their individuals. It is natural to think that any abrupt change in the structure, led by the interaction between all the constituents, could be related to the percolating geometrical structures at the transition points. Thus, at that point, the correlation length is expected to growth attaining a power-law dominance. The latter will, then, give rise to power-laws functionalities on the geometrical’s statistics forms, often called percolating functions.In this respect, we propose that the transition online-offline protest is characterised by some signs of universality, as the expected consequences from the divergence on the correlation function at the critical point.