Research

An Experimental Investigation of Algorithm Effects on Political Polarization Cho, J., Ahmed, S., Hilbert, M., Liu, B., & Luu, J. (2020). Do Search Algorithms Endanger Democracy? An Experimental Investigation of Algorithm Effects on Political Polarization. Journal...

Lessons learned from using big data to assess the digital economy This big data exercise was carried out by a team of experts, Veronika Vilgis, Yu-Chang Ho, Xin Jin, Kangbo Lu, Karla Rascon-Garcia and Matthew Reese,...

Hilbert, M., & Darmon, D. (2020). How Complexity and Uncertainty Grew with Algorithmic Trading. Entropy, 22(5), 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22050499 Abstract The machine-learning paradigm promises traders to reduce uncertainty through better predictions done by ever more complex algorithms....

Martin Hilbert, George Barnett, Joshua Blumenstock, Noshir Contractor, Jana Diesner, Seth Frey, Sandra González-Bailón, PJ Lamberson, Jennifer Pan, Tai-Quan Peng, Cuihua (Cindy) Shen, Paul E. Smaldino, Wouter van Atteveldt, Annie Waldherr, Jingwen Zhang, Jonathan J. H....

Hilbert, M., Liu, B., Luu, J., & Fishbein, J. (2019). Behavioral Experiments With Social Algorithms: An Information Theoretic Approach to Input–Output Conversions. Communication Methods and Measures, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2019.1620712 ABSTRACT While traditional computer-mediated communication happened through...

Hilbert, M., James, R. G., Gil-Lopez, T., Jiang, K., & Zhou, Y. (2018). The Complementary Importance of Static Structure and Temporal Dynamics in Teamwork Communication. Human Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqy008       (free access here) ABSTRACT Communicative exchanges...

Hilbert, M., & Aravindakshan, A. (2018). What Characterizes the Polymodal Media of the Mobile Phone? The Multiple Media within the World’s Most Popular Medium. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2(3), 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2030037   OPEN ACCESS ABSTRACT While the...

Hilbert, M., Ahmed, S., Cho, J., Liu, B., & Luu, J. (2018). Communicating with Algorithms: A Transfer Entropy Analysis of Emotions-based Escapes from Online Echo Chambers. Communication Methods and Measures, 0(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2018.1479843 ABSTRACT Online algorithms...

Jaidka, K., Ahmed, S., Skoric, M., & Hilbert, M. (2018). Predicting elections from social media: a three-country, three-method comparative study. Asian Journal of Communication, 0(0), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2018.1453849   ABSTRACT This study introduces and evaluates the robustness...

These two Chapters are 2014 updates of the 2007 estimations from  Hilbert, M., & López, P. (2011). The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information. Science, 332(6025), 60–65. For more see here: http://www.martinhilbert.net/worldinfocapacity-html/  These updates...