Participants in social media are not all the same. People who contribute to social media come in "flavors" that are created by each participant's patterns of activity and connection. In the post "Distinguishing social network attributes of online social roles…
CALL FOR PAPERS INTERACT 2009 – Research and Practice The twelfth IFIP conference on Human-Computer Interaction 24 – 28 August 2009 in Uppsala, Sweden Conference website: www.INTERACT2009.org Paper submission site: https://www.softconf.com/s08/interact2009/ ------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------- The theme of the…
Here are a few of the major stakeholders that gather around any social media effort. Each role can be further divided into sub roles who specialize in particular kinds of behavior like starting discussions, arguments, or answering questions. Each stakeholder has information needs that…
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2008 Some dimensions of social media Marc Smith Talk reviews sociological concepts of social media and visualizations of computer-mediated collective behavior. Slides: 2008 - ICWSM - Marc Smith - Some Dimensions Of…
I love this paper from Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy and Mark Ackerman at WWW2008: Knowledge sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone knows something In particular, this image (figure 4) is a great use of an innovative way of…
Many of my colleagues and I have applied social network analysis to Internet social media. Email, mail lists, wikis, blogs, newsgroups, web boards, photo sharing systems and social networking services all create "network" structures. In several papers we documented the…