Oxford Internet Institute

9 April 2017

Authors: 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

30 March 2017

Authors: 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

18 March 2017

Authors: 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!

26 February 2017

Authors: 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

5 December 2016

Authors: 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

4 November 2016

Authors: 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

2 November 2016

Authors: 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

20 June 2016

Authors: 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

23 May 2016

Authors: 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

5 February 2016

Authors: 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

28 October 2014

Authors: 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

30 September 2014

Authors: 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

20 April 2014

Authors: 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”

19 January 2014

Authors: 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

27 May 2013

Authors: 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

26 May 2013

Authors: 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