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Behavioural Sociology of Humans and Machines
Taha Yasseri, Hao Cui, Nico Mutzner
Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly participates in communication, decision-making, and collective action, making the social organisation of human-machine interaction central…
Social Physics: A manifesto
János Kertész, Marc Barthelemny, Marc Barthelemy +21
Social Physics seeks quantitative, empirically testable explanations of collective human behavior. Its name has a long and contested history, but its contemporary program is neithe…
Endogenous drivers of gender disparity in online dating
Huaiyu Tan, Chenyu Li, Taha Yasseri +2
In its early days, online dating was heralded as a great equalizer, removing biases built into the structures of heterosexuality courtship. However, as repeatedly observed, that pr…
Individual differences in knowledge network navigation
Manran Zhu, Taha Yasseri, János Kertész
With the rapid accumulation of online information, efficient web navigation has grown vital yet challenging. To create an easily navigable cyberspace catering to diverse demographi…
Terrorist attacks sharpen the binary perception of "Us" vs. "Them"
Milan Jović, Lovro Šubelj, Tea Golob +5
Terrorist attacks not only harm citizens but also shift their attention, which has long-lasting impacts on public opinion and government policies. Yet measuring the changes in publ…
Gender Imbalance and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Contributions to Citizen Science Projects: the case of Zooniverse
Khairunnisa Ibrahim, Samuel Khodursky, Taha Yasseri
Citizen Science is research undertaken by professional scientists and members of the public collaboratively. Despite numerous benefits of citizen science for both the advancement o…
Football is becoming more predictable; Network analysis of 88 thousands matches in 11 major leagues
Victor Martins Maimone, Taha Yasseri
In recent years excessive monetization of football and professionalism among the players has been argued to have affected the quality of the match in different ways. On the one han…
Dissent and Rebellion in the House of Commons: A Social Network Analysis of Brexit-Related Divisions in the 57 Parliament
Carla Intal, Taha Yasseri
The British party system is known for its discipline and cohesion, but it remains wedged on one issue: European integration. We offer a methodology using social network analysis th…
Social Media, Money, and Politics: Campaign Finance in the 2016 US Congressional Cycle
Lily McElwee, Taha Yasseri
With social media penetration deepening among both citizens and political figures, there is a pressing need to understand whether and how political use of major platforms is electo…
Social Complex Contagion in Music Listenership: A Natural Experiment with 1.3 Million Participants
John Ternovski, Taha Yasseri
Can live music events generate complex contagion in music streaming? This paper finds evidence in the affirmative, but only for the most popular artists. We generate a novel datase…
Inspiration, Captivation, and Misdirection: Emergent Properties in Networks of Online Navigation
Patrick Gildersleve, Taha Yasseri
The World Wide Web (WWW) has fundamentally changed the ways billions of people are able to access information. Thus, understanding how people seek information online is an importan…
Understanding and coping with extremism in an online collaborative environment
Csilla Rudas, Olivér Surányi, Taha Yasseri +1
The Internet has provided us with great opportunities for large scale collaborative public good projects. Wikipedia is a predominant example of such projects where conflicts emerge…
Dynamics and Biases of Online Attention: The Case of Aircraft Crashes
Ruth García-Gavilanes, Milena Tsvetkova, Taha Yasseri
The Internet not only has changed the dynamics of our collective attention, but also through the transactional log of online activities, provides us with the opportunity to study a…
Two Roads Diverged: A Semantic Network Analysis of Guanxi on Twitter
Pu Yan, Taha Yasseri
Guanxi, roughly translated as "social connection", is a term commonly used in the Chinese language. In this research, we employed a linguistic approach to explore popular discourse…
A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter Studies on Political Collective Action
Peter Cihon, Taha Yasseri
In recent years researchers have gravitated to social media platforms, especially Twitter, as fertile ground for empirical analysis of social phenomena. Social media provides resea…
Structural limitations of learning in a crowd: communication vulnerability and information diffusion in MOOCs
Nabeel Gillani, Taha Yasseri, Rebecca Eynon +1
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together a global crowd of thousands of learners for several weeks or months. In theory, the openness and scale of MOOCs can promote itera…
Investigating Political Participation and Social Information Using Big Data and a Natural Experiment
Scott A. Hale, Peter John, Helen Margetts +1
Social information is particularly prominent in digital settings where the design of platforms can more easily give real-time information about the behaviour of peers and reference…
Modeling Social Dynamics in a Collaborative Environment
Gerardo Iñiguez, János Török, Taha Yasseri +2
Wikipedia is a prime example of today's value production in a collaborative environment. Using this example, we model the emergence, persistence and resolution of severe conflicts…
Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data?
Taha Yasseri, Jonathan Bright
Today, our more-than-ever digital lives leave significant footprints in cyberspace. Large scale collections of these socially generated footprints, often known as big data, could h…
The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics
Anna Samoilenko, Taha Yasseri
Activity of modern scholarship creates online footprints galore. Along with traditional metrics of research quality, such as citation counts, online images of researchers and insti…
Rapid rise and decay in petition signing
Taha Yasseri, Scott A. Hale, Helen Margetts
Contemporary collective action, much of which involves social media and other Internet-based platforms, leaves a digital imprint which may be harvested to better understand the dyn…
The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis
Taha Yasseri, Anselm Spoerri, Mark Graham +1
We present, visualize and analyse the similarities and differences between the controversial topics related to "edit wars" identified in 10 different language versions of Wikipedia…
Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data
Márton Mestyán, Taha Yasseri, János Kertész
Use of socially generated "big data" to access information about collective states of the minds in human societies has become a new paradigm in the emerging field of computational…
Value production in a collaborative environment
Taha Yasseri, János Kertész
We review some recent endeavors and add some new results to characterize and understand underlying mechanisms in Wikipedia (WP), the paradigmatic example of collaborative value pro…