The ecology of social interactions in online and offline environments
Angelo Antoci, Alexia Delfino, Fabio Paglieri, Fabio Sabatini

TL;DR
This paper investigates how online and offline social interactions influence collective well-being, revealing that self-protective behaviors can lead to suboptimal social states in a game-theoretic framework.
Contribution
It introduces an evolutionary game model to analyze the impact of social strategies on offline and online interactions and their collective outcomes.
Findings
Self-protective behaviors can lead to non-socially optimal states
Online socialization influences offline interaction dynamics
Strategies of socialization affect collective well-being
Abstract
The rise in online social networking has brought about a revolution in social relations. However, its effects on offline interactions and its implications for collective well-being are still not clear and are under-investigated. We study the ecology of online and offline interaction in an evolutionary game framework where individuals can adopt different strategies of socialization. Our main result is that the spreading of self-protective behaviors to cope with hostile social environments can lead the economy to non-socially optimal stationary states.
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Taxonomy
TopicsOpinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Complex Network Analysis Techniques
