Sigal Oren: "An Algorithmic Approach for Analyzing Social Phenomena"
These days, as more and more people use online applications such as Wikipedia, Stack Overflow or Facebook, social phenomena that originally appeared in the offline world make an appearance online and new social phenomena emerge. This calls for narrowing the gap between computer science and social sciences in general, and sociology in particular. The opportunity here is twofold. First, the algorithmic approach can offer a new perspective on social phenomena previously studied in social sciences.