A great conference on social aspects of technology is coming up soon: C&T 2009 June 25-27, 2009 The Pennsylvania State University Information Sciences and Technology Building In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings…
Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is hosting a conference on "Studying Society in a Digital World" Thursday - Saturday, April 23-25, 2009 at Princeton University http://citp.princeton.edu/front/conference-studying-society-in-a-digital-world/ Here are some standout people and talks at the conference: Lada Adamic, Michigan Eric…
A great conference on social media and related issues will be held this August in Vancouver: 2009 IEEE Social Computing Conference. I will be reviewing for the conference and will be working on a couple of papers that will be…
A shout out to SMRF collaborators Eric Gleave, Howard (“Ted”) Welser, and Tom Lento – our paper “A conceptual and operational definition of “Social Role” in Online Community” got the best paper award at HICSS-42! The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences has featured a great series of mini tracks over the years. The Persistent Conversations mini track has featured great work on threaded conversations, blogs, chats, wikis, and social media for more than a decade. This year our paper appeared in the Digital Media: Content and Communication Track.
With a very nice letter that puts the award in some context:
Ten papers out of 515 at the conference were selected for Best Paper Awards. Many thanks to track organizers Karrie Karahalios and Fernanda Viegas.
A previous paper in 2006 also got best paper: You Are Who You Talk To: Detecting Roles in Usenet Newsgroups, by Danyel Fisher, Marc Smith, and Howard T. Welser
Two years before that in 2004 Fernanda Viegas and I also published a paper at HICSS that got best paper: Newsgroup Crowds and AuthorLines: Visualizing the Activity of Individuals in Conversational Cyberspaces,
by Ferndanda B. Viégas and Marc Smith.
Tom Erickson maintains a great listing of many years of HICSS papers.
Here is Tom Lento receiving the award at the conference in Hawaii earlier this month:
More Best Papers from this year…
Katy Borner at the Visual Data Analysis Conference in San Jose It was good to see Katy Borner at the Visual Data Analysis conference held recently in San Jose. Katy is part of the Network Workbench project that provides…
ASONAM 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS (A printable typeset version of a more extensive CfP can be found at <http://www.asonam.org/ASONAM09_CfP.pdf>.) The 2009 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining. http://www.asonam.org ASONAM is an international conference to…