A new book E-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice edited by Nicholas W. Jankowski on the ways social science research is being changed by the rise of social media has just been released by Routledge. My colleagues and I contributed a chapter on the ways that information visualization of social media is a useful technique to [...]
Entries from August 2009
Book: E-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice
August 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Book · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Papers · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology
Paper in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: Discussion Catalysts in Political Discussions
August 26th, 2009 · No Comments
2009 – JCMC- Discussion Catalysts – Himelboim, Gleave and Smith JCMC Article: Discussion Catalysts My co-authors Eric Gleave, from the University of Washington, Department of Sociology and Itai Himelboim, from the University of Georgia, Department of Communications, are pleased to note the publication of our paper “Discussion catalysts in online political discussions: Content importers and [...]
Tags: Community · Metrics · Papers · Research · Social Media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology
On the robustness of Twitter and false SAT Analogies
August 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments
This blog entry is a response to Cody Brown’s post here. I wanted to leave a comment on the post, but it was going to run a bit long, so I thought I’d put up a response of my own. Cody’s piece is interesting and well-reasoned. The basic argument he makes is that Twitter, much [...]
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