Tag: Paper
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Collective Memory in the Digital Age
9 April 2017
Author: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 ...
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The interplay between extremism and communication in a collaborative project
30 March 2017
Author: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 ...
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Using Twitter data to study politics? Fine, but be careful!
18 March 2017
Author: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 ...
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Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots
26 February 2017
Author: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. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Biases in Online Attention; Whose life matters more
2 November 2016
Author: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 ...
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Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour
20 June 2016
Author: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 ...
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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 ...
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P-values: misunderstood and misused
5 February 2016
Author: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 ...
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New publication: Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies
28 October 2014
Author: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 ...
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Our paper at the Network Inclusion Roundtable: Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
30 September 2014
Author: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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wikipedia; modern platform, ancient debates on Land and Gods
27 May 2013
Author: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 ...
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What can Wikipedia tell us about the Cannes Festival just before the closing
26 May 2013
Author: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 ...
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