Taha Yasseri

University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology

Belfield

Dublin 4

Ireland

University of Oxford

Senior Research Fellow

1 St Giles'

University of Oxford

Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3JS

United Kingdom

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The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis

Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration, Fichman P., Hara N., eds., Scarecrow Press, 2014
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 May 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Taha Yasseri, Anselm Spoerri, Mark Graham and Janos Kertesz
University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - School of Communication and Information (SC&I), University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute and Budapest University of Technology and Economics - Department of Theoretical Physics
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Petition Growth and Success Rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street Website

Hale, S. A., Margetts, H., and Yasseri, T. (2013). Petition Growth and Success Rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street Website. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci ’13.
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 18 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2021
Scott A. Hale, Helen Zerlina Margetts and Taha Yasseri
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology
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petition, mobilization, trace data, big data, leptokurtic, bursty growth

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Investigating Political Participation and Social Information Using Big Data and a Natural Experiment

APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2014
Scott A. Hale, Peter John, Peter John, Helen Zerlina Margetts and Taha Yasseri
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, University College London - School of Public PolicyDepartment of Political Economy, KCL, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology
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collective action, politicial participation, big data, experiments, natural experiments, regression discontiunity design, petitions

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From Print to Pixels: The Changing Landscape of the Public Sphere in the Digital Age

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 31 Aug 2023
Taha Yasseri
University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology
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Public Sphere, Social Media, Digital Age, Online deliberation, Online communities

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Selling Sex: What Determines Rates and Popularity? An Analysis of 11.5 Thousand Online Profiles

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Nov 2019
Alicia Mergenthaler and Taha Yasseri
University of Oxford, Students and University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology
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Sex work, Labor and demographic economics, Popularity dynamics, Gender, Online market

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‘Vote Me Up If You Like My Ideas!’ Experiences of Learning in a MOOC

2014 ICA Pre-Conference Working Paper: Innovation in Higher Education: Building a Better Future?
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Jun 2014
Rebecca Eynon, Isis Hjorth, Nabeel Gillani and Taha Yasseri
University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology
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MOOC, student experience, digital trace data, interviews, mixed method

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Engagement and Progression in Open Online 'Micro Lessons': An Analysis of Learners’ Log Data from an Online Learning Platform

Proceedings of the AUBH E-Learning Conference 2021: Innovative Learning & Teaching - Lessons from COVID-19
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Jun 2021
Fatema Akbar and Taha Yasseri
University of California, Irvine and University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology
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Growth Mindset, Learning Analytics, Log Data, Micro-lessons, Online Learning, Open Educational Resources, Web Analytics

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Even Good Bots Fight: The Case of Wikipedia

PLoS ONE 12(2): e0171774, 2017. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171774
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 May 2021
Milena Tsvetkova, Ruth Garcia-Gavilanes, Luciano Floridi and Taha Yasseri
University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, Yale University - Digital Ethics Center and University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology
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Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia, Bots, Society, Automation

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Mapping the UK Webspace: Fifteen Years of British Universities on the Web

Proceedings of WebSci, 2014
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 May 2014 Last Revised: 13 May 2014
Scott Hale, Taha Yasseri, Josh Cowls, Eric T. Meyer, Ralph Schroeder and Helen Zerlina Margetts
University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of California, Berkeley - School of Information, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute and Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Information Interfaces and Presentation, Hypertext, Hypermedia, Group and Organization Interfaces, Web-based interaction, Human factors, Measurement

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What They Don't Tell You About Conspiracy Theories: Genius-driven Science and Informal Science Communication predict Susceptibility to Conspiracy Beliefs

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2025
Michele d'Errico and Taha Yasseri
Trinity College (Dublin) and University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Sociology
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conspiracy theories, genius, pop-science, trust in science, Informal Science