The HUMANET lab studies networks composed of humans and intelligent machines such as bots and algorithms. Employing experimental, computational, and data science methods, we aim to build the foundations of a new cumulative empirical sociology of humans and machines.
HUMANET received €2 million in funding from the European Research Council for the period 2025-2030. The project will bring together an interdisciplinary team of…
Our perspective article “A new sociology of humans and machines” came out in Nature Human Behaviour. The article argues that networks of multiple interdependent…
We received funding of £14,000 from the LSE Research Impact and Support Fund for the project “Field experiments of social influence and contagion with…