I attended the "Studying Society In A Digital World" conference at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. They just posted most of the conference slides. I took some pictures and have inserted them next to the link…
Another conference focused on research on blogs and other forms of social media is "ICWSM" - the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. I was able to attend the previous meeting of this conference last March in Seattle and…
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…
This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Unfortunately, the article did not include any of the data visualizations, so we thought we would take the…
A while back I posted links to some research on Web 2.0 tools and scientific collaboration. For anyone who might be interested, there is a Workshop on Research 2.0 offered as part of the next Conference on e-Social Science. The…
Increasingly, technical conferences are featuring topics that make them look like sociology conferences! The upcoming Conference on Information and Knowledge Management describes itself as targeted at the "database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. The purpose of the conference is…