When Dominic Cummings made a public statement to explain why he drove 260 miles to stay with his parents during the coronavirus lockdown, the prime Minister’s chief adviser made an assertion that initially went largely unnoticed: For years, I have warned of the dangers of pandemics. Last year I wrote about the possible threat ofContinue reading “Dominic Cummings: how the internet knows when you’ve updated your blog”
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Online movements spread explosively rather than diffusively
I’m very happy that a favourite!! paper of mine is finally published in EPJ Data Science. The paper that is titled “Rapid rise and decay in petition signing” tries to analyse and model the dynamics of popularity of online petitions. Traditionally, collective action is known to follow a chain-reaction type of dynamics with a criticalContinue reading “Online movements spread explosively rather than diffusively”
Using Twitter data to study politics? Fine, but be careful!
The role of social media in shaping the new politics is undeniable. Therefore the volume of research on this topic, relying on the data that are produced by the same technologies, is ever increasing. And let’s be honest, when we say “social media” data, almost always we mean Twitter data! Twitter is arguably the most studiedContinue reading “Using Twitter data to study politics? Fine, but be careful!”
Taha Yasseri 