Pew Internet Research and Social Media Research Foundation Release Report
The six types of Twitter conversations Have you ever wondered what a Twitter conversation looks like from 10,000 feet? A new report from the Pew Research Center, in association with the Social Media Research Foundation, provides an aerial view of the social…
HICSS 2011 Paper: EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections
A recent paper “EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections” by Social Media Research Foundation members Marc Smith (from Connected Action), Professor Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) and Professor Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) both from the University of Maryland and has been published at…
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 [...]
ICWSM 2010 Liveblog, Day 3
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) Michael Kearns Keynote Experiments: Graph Coloring / Consensus / Voting Topology of the Network vs. what was the network used for? Voting experiments – similar to consensus, with a crucial strategic difference. Introduce a tension between: -Individual preferences -Collective unity -Color choices; challenge comes from [...]
ICWSM 2010 Liveblog, Day 1
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) We will be liveblogging (when possible) from ICWSM 2010, going on now! Keynote: Bob Kraut, CMU implications for community design -offline theories of socialization helpful, not definitive -online communities can build in good socialization practice -e.g. WP welcoming committee Two Types of Commitments to Groups [...]