RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Baronchelli, Andrea YR 2016 T1 A gentle introduction to the minimal Naming Game JF Belgian Journal of Linguistics VO 30 IS 1 SP 171 OP 192 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.30.08bar PB John Benjamins SN 0774-5141, AB Social conventions govern countless behaviors all of us engage in every day, from how we greet each other to the languages we speak. But how can shared conventions emerge spontaneously in the absence of a central coordinating authority? The Naming Game model shows that networks of locally interacting individuals can spontaneously self-organize to produce global coordination. Here, we provide a gentle introduction to the main features of the model, from the dynamics observed in homogeneously mixing populations to the role played by more complex social networks, and to how slight modifications of the basic interaction rules give origin to a richer phenomenology in which more conventions can co-exist indefinitely., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/bjl.30.08bar