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September 22-23, 2011: Purdue University – Lecture on Social Media Networks

I will speak at Purdue University on September 22 and 23, 2011 about mapping social media networks. My host is Sorin Matei, professor of Communications, who has been researching the social structure of social media networks. I will also speak at Professor Matei’s class: COM 63200 On-line Interaction and Facilitation Here is an example map of […]

From Hyperlinks to Hyperties: Extending Goffman to Mobile Social Software

In my paper From Hyperlinks to Hyperties in The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors; which came from the symposium of the same name at Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia). I…

Electrification of the Interaction Order, or, eGoffman

The great sociologist Erving Goffman wrote a number of influential works about a domain of social life he called the "interaction order", the realm of interactions between people. Goffman studied how interactions are structured in the most common settings like…