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Taha Yasseri

January 13, 2023

Taha Yasseri (born 6 September 1984) is a physicist and sociologist known for his research on Wikipedia and computational social science.[2] He is an associate professor at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. He was formerly a senior research fellow in computational social science at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for data science, and a research fellow in humanities and social sciences at Wolfson College, Oxford. Yasseri is one of the leading scholars in computational social science and his research has been widely covered in mainstream media.[4][5][6][7][8][9] Yasseri obtained his PhD in theoretical physics of complex systems at the age of 25 from the University of Göttingen, Germany.

Taha Yasseri
Born
Taha Yasseri
Persian: طاها یاسری

(1984-09-06) 6 September 1984 (age 38)
NationalityBritish
Alma materSharif University of Technology (MSc)[1]
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[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Oxford Internet Institute
Alan Turing Institute
ThesisNanoscale pattern formation on ion-sputtered surfaces (2010)
Doctoral advisorReiner Kree[3]
Websitetahayasseri.com

Education

Yasseri was educated at Sharif University of Technology[1] and the University of Göttingen where he was awarded a 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.[2][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",[18] Yasseri and his colleagues studied interactions between Wikipedia bots. Their work illustrating the unpredictable and somewhat surprising social interactions between bots, ignited a discussion on the topic of machine sociology and the human-like behaviour of systems of semi-autonomous agents such as Wikipedia bots.[19] Drawing on complex systems theory, Yasseri argues that even simple and predictable bots with a common goal and design might show unpredictable 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 Taha Yasseri's ORCID 0000-0002-1800-6094
  2. ^ a b c Taha Yasseri publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  3. ^ Hartmann, Alexander K; Kree, Reiner; Yasseri, Taha (2009). "Simulating discrete models of pattern formation by ion beam sputtering". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 21 (22): 224015. Bibcode:2009JPCM...21v4015H. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/21/22/224015. ISSN 0953-8984. PMID 21715753. S2CID 27445208.
  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. ^ Price, Michael (11 October 2016). "We care when an airplane crashes. And then we don't". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aal0248.
  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. ^ Wachs, Johannes; Yasseri, Taha; Lengyel, Balázs; Kertész, János (2019). "Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns". Royal Society Open Science. 6 (4): 182103. arXiv:1810.05485. Bibcode:2019RSOS....682103W. doi:10.1098/rsos.182103. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 6502378. PMID 31183137.  
  10. ^ Yasseri, Taha (2010). Nanoscale pattern formation on ion-sputtered surfaces. uni-goettingen.de (PhD thesis). University of Göttingen. OCLC 837961471.  
  11. ^ Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca; Mashhadi, Afra; Yasseri, Taha (2017). Social Informatics. Springer. ISBN 9783319672168.
  12. ^ Szolnoki, Attila; Mestyán, Márton; Yasseri, Taha; Kertész, János (2013). "Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success Based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data". PLOS ONE. 8 (8): e71226. arXiv:1211.0970. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...871226M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071226. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3749192. PMID 23990938.
  13. ^ Samoilenko, Anna; Yasseri, Taha (2014). "The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics". EPJ Data Science. Springer Publishing. 3 (1). arXiv:1310.8508. doi:10.1140/epjds20. S2CID 4971771.  
  14. ^ Schellekensa, Menno H.; Holstegeb, Floris; Yasseria, Taha (2019). "Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition". arXiv:1904.06310. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. ^ Szolnoki, Attila; Yasseri, Taha; Sumi, Robert; Rung, András; Kornai, András; Kertész, János (2012). "Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia". PLOS ONE. 7 (6): e38869. arXiv:1202.3643. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...738869Y. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038869. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3380063. PMID 22745683.
  16. ^ Yasseri, Taha; Spoerri, Anselm; Graham, Mark; Kertesz, Janos (2013). "The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis". Rochester, NY. arXiv:1305.5566. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2269392. S2CID 12133330. SSRN 2269392. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ Yasseri, Taha; Sumi, Robert; Kertész, János (2012). "Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis". PLOS ONE. 7 (1): e30091. arXiv:1109.1746. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...730091Y. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030091. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3260192. PMID 22272279.
  18. ^ Tsvetkova, Milena; García-Gavilanes, Ruth; Floridi, Luciano; Yasseri, Taha (2017). "Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia". PLOS ONE. 12 (2): e0171774. arXiv:1609.04285. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1271774T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171774. PMC 5322977. PMID 28231323.
  19. ^ Simon, Matt. "Internet Bots Fight Each Other Because They're All Too Human". Wired – via www.wired.com.
  20. ^ Yasseri, Taha. "Never mind killer robots – even the good ones are scarily unpredictable". The Conversation.
  21. ^ Bohannon, John (2017). "Election polling is in trouble. Can internet data save it?". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aal0695.
  22. ^ Margetts, Helen; John, Peter; Hale, Scott A.; Yasseri, Taha (2016). Political turbulence: how social media shape collective action. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691159225.
  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.

January 13, 2023
taha, yasseri, born, september, 1984, physicist, sociologist, known, research, wikipedia, computational, social, science, associate, professor, school, sociology, university, college, dublin, ireland, formerly, senior, research, fellow, computational, social, . Taha Yasseri born 6 September 1984 is a physicist and sociologist known for his research on Wikipedia and computational social science 2 He is an associate professor at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin Ireland He was formerly a senior research fellow in computational social science at the Oxford Internet Institute OII University of Oxford a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for data science and a research fellow in humanities and social sciences at Wolfson College Oxford Yasseri is one of the leading scholars in computational social science and his research has been widely covered in mainstream media 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yasseri obtained his PhD in theoretical physics of complex systems at the age of 25 from the University of Gottingen Germany Taha YasseriBornTaha YasseriPersian طاها یاسری 1984 09 06 6 September 1984 age 38 NationalityBritishAlma materSharif University of Technology MSc 1 University of Gottingen PhD AwardsLaureate Award IRC 2022 W J M Mackenzie Book Prize Political Studies Association 2017 Scientific careerFieldsComplex systemsComputational social scienceNetwork scienceSocial data scienceHuman dynamics 2 InstitutionsUniversity of OxfordOxford Internet InstituteAlan Turing InstituteThesisNanoscale pattern formation on ion sputtered surfaces 2010 Doctoral advisorReiner Kree 3 Websitetahayasseri wbr com Contents 1 Education 2 Research and career 2 1 Wikipedia 2 2 Machine sociology and bots conflict 2 3 Social media and politics 2 4 TEDx 3 ReferencesEducation EditYasseri was educated at Sharif University of Technology 1 and the University of Gottingen where he was awarded a PhD in physics for research supervised by Reiner Kree Wikidata 10 Research and career EditYasseri s research investigates complex systems computational social science 11 network science 12 social data science and human dynamics 2 13 14 Wikipedia Edit 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 Edit In a 2017 article titled Even Good Bots Fight 18 Yasseri and his colleagues studied interactions between Wikipedia bots Their work illustrating the unpredictable and somewhat surprising social interactions between bots ignited a discussion on the topic of machine sociology and the human like behaviour of systems of semi autonomous agents such as Wikipedia bots 19 Drawing on complex systems theory Yasseri argues that even simple and predictable bots with a common goal and design might show unpredictable emergent behaviour when deployed at mass scale 20 Social media and politics Edit 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 Edit Yasseri is a TEDx Thessaloniki 2019 speaker 26 References Edit a b Taha Yasseri s ORCID 0000 0002 1800 6094 a b c Taha Yasseri publications indexed by Google Scholar Hartmann Alexander K Kree Reiner Yasseri Taha 2009 Simulating discrete models of pattern formation by ion beam sputtering Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 21 22 224015 Bibcode 2009JPCM 21v4015H doi 10 1088 0953 8984 21 22 224015 ISSN 0953 8984 PMID 21715753 S2CID 27445208 These Computer Scientists Are Making a Global Map of Sexism Motherboard 9 October 2015 Retrieved 25 March 2018 Sample Ian 23 February 2017 Study reveals bot on bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia s pages The Guardian Retrieved 25 March 2018 Price Michael 11 October 2016 We care when an airplane crashes And then we don t Science doi 10 1126 science aal0248 Pearson Jordan 15 July 2016 Research Confirms Dating Apps Are a Sad Game Vice Retrieved 1 June 2018 Pappas Stephanie 5 April 2017 How Long Do We Remember Major Plane Crashes Live Science Wachs Johannes Yasseri Taha Lengyel Balazs Kertesz Janos 2019 Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns Royal Society Open Science 6 4 182103 arXiv 1810 05485 Bibcode 2019RSOS 682103W doi 10 1098 rsos 182103 ISSN 2054 5703 PMC 6502378 PMID 31183137 Yasseri Taha 2010 Nanoscale pattern formation on ion sputtered surfaces uni goettingen de PhD thesis University of Gottingen OCLC 837961471 Ciampaglia Giovanni Luca Mashhadi Afra Yasseri Taha 2017 Social Informatics Springer ISBN 9783319672168 Szolnoki Attila Mestyan Marton Yasseri Taha Kertesz Janos 2013 Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success Based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data PLOS ONE 8 8 e71226 arXiv 1211 0970 Bibcode 2013PLoSO 871226M doi 10 1371 journal pone 0071226 ISSN 1932 6203 PMC 3749192 PMID 23990938 Samoilenko Anna Yasseri Taha 2014 The distorted mirror of Wikipedia a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics EPJ Data Science Springer Publishing 3 1 arXiv 1310 8508 doi 10 1140 epjds20 S2CID 4971771 Schellekensa Menno H Holstegeb Floris Yasseria Taha 2019 Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition arXiv 1904 06310 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Szolnoki Attila Yasseri Taha Sumi Robert Rung Andras Kornai Andras Kertesz Janos 2012 Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia PLOS ONE 7 6 e38869 arXiv 1202 3643 Bibcode 2012PLoSO 738869Y doi 10 1371 journal pone 0038869 ISSN 1932 6203 PMC 3380063 PMID 22745683 Yasseri Taha Spoerri Anselm Graham Mark Kertesz Janos 2013 The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis Rochester NY arXiv 1305 5566 doi 10 2139 ssrn 2269392 S2CID 12133330 SSRN 2269392 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Yasseri Taha Sumi Robert Kertesz Janos 2012 Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity A Demographic Analysis PLOS ONE 7 1 e30091 arXiv 1109 1746 Bibcode 2012PLoSO 730091Y doi 10 1371 journal pone 0030091 ISSN 1932 6203 PMC 3260192 PMID 22272279 Tsvetkova Milena Garcia Gavilanes Ruth Floridi Luciano Yasseri Taha 2017 Even good bots fight The case of Wikipedia PLOS ONE 12 2 e0171774 arXiv 1609 04285 Bibcode 2017PLoSO 1271774T doi 10 1371 journal pone 0171774 PMC 5322977 PMID 28231323 Simon Matt Internet Bots Fight Each Other Because They re All Too Human Wired via www wired com Yasseri Taha Never mind killer robots even the good ones are scarily unpredictable The Conversation Bohannon John 2017 Election polling is in trouble Can internet data save it Science doi 10 1126 science aal0695 Margetts Helen John Peter Hale Scott A Yasseri Taha 2016 Political turbulence how social media shape collective action Princeton New Jersey Princeton University Press ISBN 9780691159225 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 Hinsliff Gaby 1 November 2016 The best politics books of 2016 The Guardian Retrieved 18 May 2018 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 Anon 2019 Dr Taha Yasseri TEDxThessaloniki tedxthessaloniki com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Taha Yasseri amp oldid 1121337947, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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