Taha Yasseri

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Taha Yasseri
Born
Taha Yasseri

(1984-09-06) 6 September 1984 (age 39)
NationalityBritish
Alma materSharif University of Technology (MSc)[3]
University of Göttingen (PhD)
AwardsLaureate Award, IRC, 2022.
W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize, Political Studies Association, 2017.
Scientific career
FieldsComplex systems
Computational social science
Network science
Social data science
Human dynamics[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Oxford Internet Institute
Alan Turing Institute
ThesisNanoscale pattern formation on ion-sputtered surfaces (2010)
Doctoral advisorReiner Kree[2]
Websitetahayasseri.com

Taha Yasseri (born 6 September 1984) is a

complex systems at the age of 25 from the University of Göttingen, Germany
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Education

Yasseri was educated at

PhD in physics for research supervised by Reiner Kree [Wikidata].[10]

Research and career

Yasseri's research investigates complex systems, computational social science,[11] network science,[12] social data science and human dynamics.[1][13][14]

Wikipedia

Yasseri has studied the statistical trends of systemic bias at Wikipedia introduced by editing conflicts and their resolution.[15] His research examined the counterproductive work behavior of edit warring. Yasseri contended that simple reverts or "undo" operations were not the most significant measure of counterproductive behavior at Wikipedia and relied instead on the statistical measurement of detecting "reverting/reverted pairs" or "mutually reverting edit pairs". Such a "mutually reverting edit pair" is defined where one editor reverts the edit of another editor who then, in sequence, returns to revert the first editor. The results were tabulated for several language versions of Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia's three largest conflict rates belonged to the articles George W. Bush, Anarchism and Muhammad. By comparison, for the German Wikipedia, the three largest conflict rates at the time of the study were for the articles covering Croatia, Scientology and 9/11 conspiracy theories.[16]

In a study published by

PLoS ONE in 2012 he estimated the share of contributions to different editions of Wikipedia from different regions of the world. It reported that the proportion of the edits made from North America was 51% for the English Wikipedia, and 25% for the simple English Wikipedia.[17] The Wikimedia Foundation hopes to increase the number of editors in the Global South to 37% by 2015.[citation needed
]

Machine sociology and bots conflict

In a 2017 article titled "Even Good Bots Fight",

emergent behaviour when deployed at mass scale.[20]

Social media and politics

Yasseri has studied the role of social media in politics. He has used Wikipedia page view statistics and Google search volumes to understand and potentially predict electoral popularity in different countries.[21] He has co-written Political Turbulence; How Social Media Shape Collective Action[22][23] which was selected among the best politics books of 2016 by The Guardian[24] and was awarded the Political Studies Association book of the year award.[25]

TEDx

Yasseri is a

TEDx Thessaloniki 2019 speaker.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b c Taha Yasseri publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. S2CID 27445208
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    ORCID 0000-0002-1800-6094
  4. ^ "These Computer Scientists Are Making a 'Global Map of Sexism'". Motherboard. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  5. ^ Sample, Ian (23 February 2017). "Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  6. doi:10.1126/science.aal0248
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  7. ^ Pearson, Jordan (15 July 2016). "Research Confirms Dating Apps Are a Sad Game". Vice. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  8. ^ Pappas, Stephanie (5 April 2017). "How Long Do We Remember Major Plane Crashes?". Live Science.
  9. PMID 31183137. Open access icon
  10. OCLC 837961471. Free access icon
  11. ISBN 9783319672168
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  12. PMID 23990938
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  13. S2CID 4971771. Open access icon
  14. arXiv:1904.06310. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  15. PMID 22745683
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  16. SSRN 2269392. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  17. PMID 22272279
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  18. PMID 28231323
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  19. ^ Simon, Matt. "Internet Bots Fight Each Other Because They're All Too Human". Wired – via www.wired.com.
  20. ^ Yasseri, Taha (25 August 2017). "Never mind killer robots – even the good ones are scarily unpredictable". The Conversation.
  21. doi:10.1126/science.aal0695
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  22. ISBN 9780691159225
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  23. ^ "Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action, by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri". Times Higher Education (THE). 21 January 2016.
  24. ^ Hinsliff, Gaby (1 November 2016). "The best politics books of 2016". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  25. ^ OII (5 December 2017). "Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action awarded the Political Studies Association book prize". Oxford Internet Institute. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  26. ^ Anon (2019). "Dr Taha Yasseri: TEDxThessaloniki". tedxthessaloniki.com.
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