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 to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems.” But the [...]
Entries from April 2008
Conference: CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Research · Social Media · Sociology
What makes social media social?
April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
At the recent ICWSM 2008 in Seattle I had an opportunity to present some thoughts about what makes social media social. The question is important because so many different types of interaction systems are considered social and they cannot all be the same thing. In an effort to categorize these systems one dimension that seems [...]
Tags: Social Media · Sociology · Talks
Where Sociology meets the Internet
April 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Welcome to all those Interested in sociology, technology, social media, mobile social software, or any and all forms of online communication. This blog is intended as a repository for information about research on computer-mediated collective action from a sociological perspective. Many people, from marketing, research and development, engineering, academic research, to managers of e-business are [...]
Tags: Research · Social Media · Sociology · Technology
