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Emo, Love, and God: Making Sense of Urban Dictionary, a Crowd-Sourced Online Dictionary
Dong Nguyen, Barbara McGillivray, Taha Yasseri
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, where producers and consumers of content unify, has drastically changed the info…
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…
Topic Modelling of Everyday Sexism Project Entries
Sophie Melville, Kathryn Eccles, Taha Yasseri
The Everyday Sexism Project documents everyday examples of sexism reported by volunteer contributors from all around the world. It collected 100,000 entries in 13+ languages within…
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…
Emergence of world-stock-market network
M. Saeedian, T. Jamali, M. Z. Kamali +3
In the age of globalization, it is natural that the stock market of each country is not independent form the other markets. In this case, collective behavior could be emerged form…