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Understanding the emergence of strong controversial issues in modernsocieties is a key issue in opinion studies. A commonly diffused idea is thefact that the increasing of homophily in social networks, due to the modernICT, can be a driving force for opinion polariation. In this paper we addressthe problem with a modelling approach following three basic steps. We firstintroduce a network morphogenesis model to reconstruct network structures wherehomophily can be tuned with a parameter. We show that as homophily increasesthe emergence of marked topological community structures in the networksraises. Secondly, we perform an opinion dynamics process on homophily dependentnetworks and we show that, contrary to the common idea, homophily helpsconsensus formation. Finally, we introduce a tunable external media pressureand we show that, actually, the combination of homophily and media makes themedia effect less effective and leads to strongly polarized opinion clusters.

The role of homophily in the emergence of opinion controversies