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Sociology of Humans and Machines

Taha Yasseri is the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin. He directs the TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM). He is also an adjunct Full Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin.

He was a Professor and the Deputy Head at the School of Sociology and a Geary Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Before that, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and a Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Wolfson College. Taha Yasseri has a PhD in Complex Systems Physics from the University of Göttingen, Germany. He has interests in analysis of large-scale transactional data and conducting behavioural experiments to understand human dynamics, machines’ social behaviour, government-society interactions, online political behaviour, mass collaboration and collective intelligence, information and opinion dynamics, hate speech and content moderation, collective behaviour, and online dating.

Why Wikipedia Works; and Social Media Not So Much

Check out my online course on “Research Design in Social Data Science” on Sage Campus.

Read this piece on Inverse about my work on Collective Memory and Attention.

Read this piece on the Conversation: Never mind killer robots – even the good ones are scarily unpredictable

Why Wikipedia Works; and Social Media Not So Much

Watch my TEDx Talk: The Internet and your inner English tea merchant.

Read our new paper: Social complex contagion in music listenership

Our paper in Science: We care when an airplane crashes. And then we don’t