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    • Collective Memory in the Digital Age

      9 April 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      We finished our project on Collective Memory in the Digital Age: Understanding “Forgetting” on the Internet last summer, but our last paper just came out on Science Advances last week. The paper, titled “The ...
      Read More Collective Memory in the Digital Age

    • The interplay between extremism and communication in a collaborative project

      30 March 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      Collaboration is among the most fundamental social behaviours.  The Internet and particularly the Web have been originally developed to foster large scale collaboration among scientists and technicians. The more ...
      Read More The interplay between extremism and communication in a collaborative project

    • Using Twitter data to study politics? Fine, but be careful!

      18 March 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      The role of social media in shaping the new politics is undeniable. Therefore the volume of research on this topic, relying on the data that are produced by the ...
      Read More Using Twitter data to study politics? Fine, but be careful!

    • Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots

      26 February 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      Our new paper titled “Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia” has finally appeared on PLOS One. There are two things that I particularly find worth-highlighting about this work. ...
      Read More Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots

    • Even Good Bots Fight

      5 December 2016

      Author:

      Milena Tsvetkova

      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 ...
      Read More Even Good Bots Fight

    • New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

      4 November 2016

      Author:

      Milena Tsvetkova

      Our study on disagreement in Wikipedia was just published in Scientific Reports (impact factor 5.2). In this study, we find that disagreement and conflict in Wikipedia follow specific patterns. ...
      Read More New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

    • Biases in Online Attention; Whose life matters more

      2 November 2016

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      This has become a common knowledge that certain lives matter more, when it comes to media coverage and public attention to natural or manmade disasters. Among many papers and articles ...
      Read More Biases in Online Attention; Whose life matters more

    • Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour

      20 June 2016

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      Jonathan and I recently published a paper titled “Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models“ in EPJ Data Science. In this article we examine the possibility ...
      Read More Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour

    • Machine Agency and its Implications on Trust

      23 May 2016

      Author:

      Vegard Engen

      As machines take a more active role in human-machine networks (HMNs), they exert an increasing level of influence on other participants. Machines are not just passive participants in such ...
      Read More Machine Agency and its Implications on Trust

    • P-values: misunderstood and misused

      5 February 2016

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      Since I launched this blog, I always wanted to write something about the dangers of big data! Things that can go wrong easily when you study a large scale ...
      Read More P-values: misunderstood and misused

    • New publication: Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies

      28 October 2014

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      source: Mombasa-Victoria (Uganda) Railway and Busoga Railway, The Director of Surveys, Nairobi Government Printers, B.E.A (1913) I’m very happy to announce that a paper that I co-authored with Casper ...
      Read More New publication: Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies

    • Our paper at the Network Inclusion Roundtable: Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

      30 September 2014

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      Chris Foster and I have had the opportunity to participate in the Network Inclusion Roundtable: organised by IT For Change in Bangalore. Our short paper, titled ‘Geographies of Information ...
      Read More Our paper at the Network Inclusion Roundtable: Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Low income markets and mobile – The problem of “quality”

      20 April 2014

      Author:

      Chris Foster

      When I started my research on low income use of mobile phones in Kenya, my goal was to understand how ICTs are adapted by these actors. But, research often ...
      Read More Low income markets and mobile – The problem of “quality”

    • Scaling new technologies for low income users

      19 January 2014

      Author:

      Chris Foster

      In developing countries, there is growing interest in adapting new technologies to allow them to reach low income groups. Such strategies can help firms to expand to wider markets ...
      Read More Scaling new technologies for low income users

    • Wikipedia; modern platform, ancient debates on Land and Gods

      27 May 2013

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      What are the most controversial topics in Wikipedia? What articles have been subject to edit wars more than others? We now have a tool to explore what topics are ...
      Read More Wikipedia; modern platform, ancient debates on Land and Gods

    • What can Wikipedia tell us about the Cannes Festival just before the closing

      26 May 2013

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      Among all the interesting events taking place today, one is the Closing Ceremony of 2013 Cannes Film Festival. If you already have seen our recent paper on Early Prediction of ...
      Read More What can Wikipedia tell us about the Cannes Festival just before the closing

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