Connected Action

The network created by “Who follows who among the people who tweeted “#CHI2010″. Node size is proportional to total tweets. Generated with NodeXL On October 29th, I will be offering a workshop in Mountain View, California on the application of social network analysis to the measurement of social media. The workshop will run from 9m [...]

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Here is an interesting use of a network diagram for data display: http://sdn.slate.com/features/endofamerica/EOANetwork.htm Readers Who Like This Apocalypse Also Preferred … The end-of-America social network. Slate’s “Choose Your Own Apocalypse” game asked readers to browse through a list of 144 end-of-America scenarios and choose up to five that seem most likely to wipe the United [...]

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Here is a great piece of social media research from the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies. Prof. Jen Golbeck and Justin Grimes analyzed 6,000 tweets from United States Congress members.  They found some interaction but a dominant broadcast pattern of use with a focus on self-promotion.  The Washington Post headlines the results as “Tweeting [...]

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A recent paper makes use of NodeXL to create illustrations of data from connections among twitter users drawn from the United States presidential debates in October 2008.  One illustration highlights the major clusters in the network. Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources Authors: Shamma, D.A.; Kennedy, L.; Churchill, E.F. Source: ACM Multimedia, [...]

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A new free and open project to implement a web based social network visualization front end is available on Codeplex: the “Information Connections Engine (ICE) is a Silverlight based framework that allows .net developers to easily visualize any type of information, as well as links between information in a user friendly and entertaining way.” The [...]

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Network graphs are appearing in a number of places.  Recently, slate.com published a tool that maps the links between entities in the day’s news. “To use this interactive tool, just click on a circle to see which stories mention that topic and which other topics it connects to in the network. You can use the [...]

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This weekend is the Social Computing 2009 conference in Vancouver, B.C.  It is a gathering of many people doing research on social media useage.  Many papers are about tagging systems, blogs, wikis, message boards, and social networking services. Along with several co-authors, I contributed to three papers in this year’s conference: First Steps to Netviz [...]

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@      The 2009 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco, California, August 8-11. The ASA attracts thousands of sociologists, a subsection of whom have  a passion for the study of the Internet and its many forms of social impacts and uses.  The Communications and Information Technology Section of the American Sociological Association [...]

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On August 7, 2009 at the American Sociological Association Group Processes meeting, a memorial for Professor Peter Kollock was held.  Several of Peter’s colleagues were in attendance and spoke about Peter’s life and work.  (Further below are some details about a conference call held on September 14th that focused on Peter’s work and impact.) Dr. [...]

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On August 5th and 6th I led a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer. New Metrics for New Media:  Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds Organizers:  Martha [...]

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The Catalyst Conference was July 27-31 in San Diego which gathered many people to discuss new technologies for enterprise computing. On Wednesday, July 29 at 11:15 a.m. I gave a presentation about the use of social network analysis within the enterprise. 2009 – Social Media Analystics Research and ToolsView more presentations from Marc Smith. Session Details: Social [...]

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