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Crowd phenomenon is a complex human behavior that has been investigated in different disciplines. The mystery of crowd lies in the strange pattern in which people tend to behave when they are among a group than their typical pattern when they are in isolation. Revolutionary crowd, as a special crowd type, has not been fully examined in the literature. However, due to the recent and current turbulent sociopolitical global environment, it turns to be a hot research topic. The aim of this book is to investigate the influence of a set of internal and external factors on the crowd pattern and dynamics in an attempt to understand the conditions that lead to or prohibit the formation of revolutionary crowds. A complete framework for the book is developed with a computer agent-based simulation testbed for testing a predefined set of experiments. The proposed model shows a number of emergent behaviors including the insignificance of highly intensified media under unfavorable satisfaction levels, the failure of contagion theory in sustaining a revolution without supporting external media, and the positive influence of the number of acquaintances on maintaining an ignited revolution.
About the author
Rasha Hassan is an Assistant Professor at the Social Computing Department, Cairo University, Egypt. She holds a PhD in Modelling Human Crowd Behavior from Social Computing Department, Cairo University, Egypt. She received her Master in Operational Research and BSc in Statistics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
