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Credit unions for online content – Alternatives to social media platform oligopoly that go beyond the false choice of dictatorship versus chaos

Marc Smith Content management on social media platforms is a complex issue. We are often confronted with the false choice that content on social media platforms should be either centrally controlled based on the values of their owners or they…

2011 State of the Union: Mapping the connections among Twitter users who tweet about SOTU

The United States State of the Union address this year was held Tuesday evening, 25 January 2011. The event is a globally visible opportunity for the President of the United States to present the Administration's vision for its agenda for…

Mapping the connections among the #wikileaks, #pdfleaks and #cablegate mentioning twitter populations with #NodeXL

On Saturday 11 December 2010 A Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom (http://personaldemocracy.com/pdfleaks) was held in New York City. I did not attend in person, but the event was streamed live. A colleague of mine, Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc), a sociologist from the University of Maryland ebiquity group, did attend and spoke on the second panel of [...]

Pierre De Vries Telco Industry Network Map featured in Journal of Social Structure (JOSS) (Made with NodeXL)

The Journal of Social Structure has released its First Annual JoSS Visualization Symposium results and two of the images were generated with NodeXL. One of the two is “The Evolution of FCC Lobbying Coalitions” by Pierre de Vries, Research Fellow at the Economic Policy Research Center University of Washington, Seattle. Pierre has been a deep [...]

June 3 and 4, 2010 – Personal Democracy Forum 2010 – NYC

I spoke on June 4th at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City about what social media network maps can tell us about various political figures and topics. The video is available here: http://streams.civicolive.com/stream/127/5040/6000. Political discussions are obviously a major area of social media use. This talk explores the ways social network analysis and visualization [...]

Video: Natalia Martín talks to Marc Smith and John Kelly about Social Media Analysis

I spoke about social media with Natalia Martín Cantero, RTVE blogger and professor in digital new reporting at IE School of Communication-IE University in Segovia, Spain along with my colleague John Kelly, from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University and Founder of Morningside Analytics. The video was recorded at the symposium on Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. In this [...]

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