ASA 2011 – Las Vegas, NV: August 20-23 – Sociologists present on the social uses and effects of information technology
Please vote on our SxSW panel: Social Mapping: Bridging Online & Offline Events
PAPER: ICWSM 2009 – Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context
Our (Vladimir D. Barash, Marc Smith, Lise Getoor, Howard T. Welser ) poster paper, Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context has been accepted and published at the 2009 ICWSM (International Conference on Weblogs and…
Social Media Roles: spammers and flamers
Answer people and discussion people are critical to many social media spaces. Many hosts of communities want to attract and retain them. When these types of participants contribute to a social media space the results can be very positive: questions…
Social media roles: patterns of behavior over time
Participants in social media are not all the same. People who contribute to social media come in "flavors" that are created by each participant's patterns of activity and connection. In the post "Distinguishing social network attributes of online social roles…