Julia Poncela-Casasnovas
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
2145 Sheridan Road (Room E136)
Evanston, IL 60208-4057, US
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+1 847-491-7231Dynamical organization towards consensus in the Axelrod model on complex networks
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 81, 056105 (2010)
Times cited: 10
Abstract
We analyze the dynamics toward cultural consensus in the Axelrod model on scale-free networks. By
looking at the microscopic dynamics of the model, we are able to show how culture traits spread across
different cultural features. We compare the diffusion at the level of cultural features to the growth of cultural consensus at the global level, finding important differences between these two processes. In particular, we show that even when most of the cultural features have reached macroscopic consensus, there are still no signals of globalization. Finally, we analyze the topology of consensus clusters both for global culture and at the feature level of representation.