Dr Taha Yasseri
Research Fellow in Computational Social Science, Oxford Internet Institute
About
Dr Yasseri uses big data to understand human dynamics, government-society interactions, mass collaboration, and opinion dynamics.
Expertise
- Big data
- Online collective actions, online societies
- Social networks, social media
- Wikipedia, Wikis
- e-petitions
- Peer production
Selected publications
- Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia (2016)
- Dynamics and biases of online attention: the case of aircraft crashes (2016)
- Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data? (2014)
- Structural limitations of learning in a crowd - communication vulnerability and information diffusion in MOOCs (2014)
Media experience
Dr Yasseri has experience of working with the media.