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October 18, 2013 Kredible.Net NSF workshop at Stanford University – Study of reputation and social roles on social media

This October 18, 2013 an NSF funded workshop called Kredible.Net to be held at Stanford University will bring together researchers studying reputation and social roles in social media. The workshop will help researchers investigate how social media, especially Wikipedia articles and editors, shape public knowledge. The project aims to build a research community and to propose a research […]

July 22st, 2010 SNA event at Stanford: Network Analysis Made Easy: Using NodeXL To Map Social Media Networks

There is a Stanford Media X event on July 22nd, 2010 on new tools for SNA: Network Analysis Made Easy: Using NodeXL To Map Social Media Networks http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/marc.html Bring a laptop (running Windows and Office 2007 or 2010) to this workshop and you can be analyzing a social media network from systems like Twitter, flickr, YouTube [...]

Marc Smith joining Media-X at Stanford as a Visiting Scholar

I am joining Media-X at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. I will work with Martha Russell and Chuck House in applying social network analysis to social media research. You can email me at masmith1@stanford.edu! Our next event will be in late July and will focus on the use of social media analysis for mapping patterns [...]

Recently, Stanford Media X Workshop – New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds

On August 5th and 6th I led a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer.

New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds
Organizers: Martha Russell, Marc Smith
August 5-6

Social media and virtual worlds offer two important frontiers for measuring earned engagement. In both, audiences are actively engaged as participants. This workshop covered foundational concepts in media measurement, describe new frontiers in measuring audience engagement in social media and virtual worlds, and provided hands-on experience in using new analytical tools.

This session also provided a walk through the basic operation of NodeXL, including generation of social networks from social media data sources like personal e-mail (drawing data from the Windows Desktop Search engine) and the Twitter social network micro-blogging system. Arbitrary edge lists (anything that can be pasted into Excel) can be visualized and analyzed in NodeXL. Attendees were encouraged to bring an edge list of interest. Sample data sets were provided.

Video about the New Media for New Metrics Workshop

Agenda WEDNESDAY, August 5: #124 Wallenberg Hall

08.30 – 09.00 – Welcome, Introductions & Overview

Summer 2009 – Stanford Media X Workshop: New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds

I will lead a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer. I am…