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Social bots weaken activist cohesion
Linda Li, Orsolya Vasarhelyi, Balazs Vedres
Social bots now make up a substantial share of online political communication, where they are studied mainly as producers of misinformation and amplified content. Far less is known…
Social bots sour activist sentiment without eroding engagement
Linda Li, Orsolya Vasarhelyi, Balazs Vedres
Social media platforms have witnessed a substantial increase in social bot activity, significantly affecting online discourse. Our study explores the dynamic nature of bot engageme…
Inclusion unlocks the creative potential of gender diversity in teams
Balazs Vedres, Orsolya Vasarhelyi
Diversity in teams can boost creativity, and gender diversity was shown to be a contributor to collective creativity. We show that gender diversity requires inclusion to lead to be…
Quantifying Indirect Gender Discrimination on Collaborative Platforms
Orsolya Vasarhelyi, Balazs Vedres
Digital collaborative platforms have become crucial venues of career advancement and individual success in many creative fields, from engineering to the arts. Indirect gender discr…
Does Crowdfunding Really Foster Innovation? Evidence from the Board Game Industry
Johannes Wachs, Balazs Vedres
Crowdfunding offers inventors and entrepreneurs alternative access to resources with which they can develop and realize their ideas. Besides helping to secure capital, crowdfunding…
Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development
Balazs Vedres, Orsolya Vasarhelyi
Women are severely marginalized in software development, especially in open source. In this article we argue that disadvantage is more due to gendered behavior than to categorical…
Dis-embedded Openness: Inequalities in European Economic Integration at the Sectoral Level
Balazs Vedres, Carl Nordlund
The process of European integration resulted in a marked increase in transnational economic flows, yet regional inequalities along many developmental indicators remain. We analyze…
Forbidden triads and Creative Success in Jazz: The Miles Davis Factor
Balazs Vedres
This article argues for the importance of forbidden triads - open triads with high-weight edges - in predicting success in creative fields. Forbidden triads had been treated as a r…