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A New Sociology of Humans and Machines
Read more: A New Sociology of Humans and MachinesFrom fake social media accounts and generative-AI chatbots to trading algorithms and self-driving vehicles, robots, bots, and algorithms are proliferating and permeating our communication channels, social interactions, economic transactions, and transportation arteries. Networks of multiple interdependent and interacting humans and intelligent machines constitute complex social systems where the collective outcomes…
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Contagion through Victimization and Observation
Read more: Contagion through Victimization and ObservationAntisocial behavior can be contagious, spreading from individual to individual and rippling through social networks. Moreover, it can spread not only through third-party influence from observation, just like innovations or individual behavior do, but also through direct experience, via “pay-it-forward” retaliation. In this study, Ji Eun Kim (LSE MSc ’20)…
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Clash of Bots
Read more: Clash of BotsIn recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on social media, and content-editing bots in online collaboration communities. The online world has turned into an ecosystem of bots. However,…
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Human-Machine Networks
Read more: Human-Machine NetworksIn the current hyper-connected era, modern Information and Communication Technology systems form sophisticated networks where not only do people interact with other people, but also machines take an increasingly visible and participatory role. Such human-machine networks are embedded in the daily lives of people, both for personal and professional use.…