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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…
Mapping the UK Webspace: Fifteen Years of British Universities on the Web
Scott A. Hale, Taha Yasseri, Josh Cowls +3
This paper maps the national UK web presence on the basis of an analysis of the .uk domain from 1996 to 2010. It reviews previous attempts to use web archives to understand nationa…
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…