Dr Taha Yasseri
Former Senior Research Fellow
Taha Yasseri analyses large-scale transactional data to understand human dynamics, collective behaviour, collective intelligence and machine intelligence.
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26 Feb 2017
26 Feb 2017
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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. First, this is the first time that someone looks at an ecosystem of the Internet bots at scale using hard data and tries to come up with a typology of the Internet bots (see the figure). And second, the arrangement of our team that is a good example of multidisciplinary research in action: Milena Tsvetkova, the lead author is a sociologist by training. Ruth Garcia is a computer engineer, Luciano Floridi is a professor of Philosophy, and I have a PhD in physics.
If you find the paper too long, have a look at the University of Oxford press release, or the one by the Alan Turing Institute, where both Luciano and I are Faculty Fellows.
Among many media coverages of our work, I think the one in The Guardian is the closest to ideal.
A first typology of the Internet bots. See the source.
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Private: Dr Milena Tsvetkova
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Milena Tsvetkova is a sociologist who uses computational and online technologies to study fundamental social phenomena such as cooperation, contagion, and inequality.
Private: Dr Ruth Olimpia García Gavilanes
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