The Power of Social Networks and Social Media’s Filter Bubble in Shaping National Identities: An Agent-Based Model, 2019-2022

These are the modeling outputs from the ABM simulations included on the paper by the same title as this data collection that was awarded best PhD paper award at the Social Simulation conference September 4-8 2022 in Milan. The model developed in this paper explained the national identity dynamics in a context where social networks and social media platforms were explicitly modelled. This allowed to test the effects and resulting changes in national identities depending on the social networks and social media filter bubble conditions. Additionally, an empirically-informed version of the model was created with political attitudes survey data from the Catalan Centre of Opinion Studies 2011 to contextualise the model in Catalonia where there's an ongoing secessionist movement. This increases the validity of the model as it represents a population such as the Catalan one.