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Even Good Bots Fight: The Case of Wikipedia
Milena Tsvetkova, Ruth García-Gavilanes, Luciano Floridi +1
In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on soc…
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…
Understanding Communication Patterns in MOOCs: Combining Data Mining and qualitative methods
Rebecca Eynon, Isis Hjorth, Taha Yasseri +1
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer unprecedented opportunities to learn at scale. Within a few years, the phenomenon of crowd-based learning has gained enormous popularity w…
What Happens After You Both Swipe Right: A Statistical Description of Mobile Dating Communications
Jennie Zhang, Taha Yasseri
Mobile dating applications (MDAs) have skyrocketed in popularity in the last few years, with popular MDA Tinder alone matching 26 million pairs of users per day. In addition to bec…
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…
Human-Machine Networks: Towards a Typology and Profiling Framework
Aslak Wegner Eide, J. Brian Pickering, Taha Yasseri +7
In this paper we outline an initial typology and framework for the purpose of profiling human-machine networks, that is, collective structures where humans and machines interact to…
Dynamics of Disagreement: Large-Scale Temporal Network Analysis Reveals Negative Interactions in Online Collaboration
Milena Tsvetkova, Ruth García-Gavilanes, Taha Yasseri
Disagreement and conflict are a fact of social life and considerably affect our well-being and productivity. Such negative interactions are rarely explicitly declared and recorded…
P-values: misunderstood and misused
Bertie Vidgen, Taha Yasseri
P-values are widely used in both the social and natural sciences to quantify the statistical significance of observed results. The recent surge of big data research has made the p-…