Connected Action

I will speak and lead a workshop on social media network analysis at Syracuse University on the 19th and 20th of January, 2012. Ines Mergel is my host.  Prof. Mergel is Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Department of Public Administration and International Affairs, and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Technology and Information Policy at the Maxwell School of [...]

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Both teaparty and occupywallstreet are actively discussed in twitter. This map of connections among people who tweeted Teaparty starts on 11/15/2011 14:22 UTC and ends on 11/15/2011 17:23, a total of 3 hours and 1 minute of traffic. The Teaparty data set contained 1,533 tweets, replies and mentions. Blue edges are connections created by replies [...]

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Methodologies for Web and Social Media Data Analysis in Social Science and Policy Research CCSR Short Course Social Media Network Analysis using NodeXL November 9th  9.00 am – 5.30 pm. Marc Smith Social Media Research Foundation http://www.smrfoundation.org Course Summary: Networks are everywhere in the natural and social world.  New tools are making the task of [...]

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The Social Media Research Foundation is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ThreadMill 0.1.  ThreadMill is a free and open application that consumes message thread data and produces reports about each author, thread, forum, and board along with visualizations of the patterns of connection and activity.  ThreadMill is written in Ruby, and depends on [...]

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#occupywallstreet continues to be an active topic of social media traffic. Here is the updated map of connections among people who recently tweeted #occupywallstreet: These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word OccupyWallStreet when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when [...]

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The #Occupywallstreet movement is growing and lots of activity is taking place in social media.  Here is a map of the connections among the people who recently tweeted the term “#occupywallstreet” on 8 October 2011. Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6225446144/ Each user is scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or [...]

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I have enjoyed and been educated by my previous visits to South Africa and the Mobile Web in Africa conference, now in its 3rd year. MWA gathers the many parts of the picture of mobile technologies in play across the African continent. I will speak again at this year’s event, focusing on social media networks.  [...]

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    Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Eventful.  The 2011 Webshop at the University of Maryland was certainly that with both an earthquake and a hurricane to mark the start and end of the event.  We really moved heaven and earth at this workshop. In 4  days, 20 talks, [...]

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I will speak at Purdue University on September 22 and 23, 2011 about mapping social media networks. My host is Sorin Matei, professor of Communications, who has been researching the social structure of social media networks. I will also speak at Professor Matei’s class: COM 63200 On-line Interaction and Facilitation Here is an example map of [...]

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2011 ASA meetings are being held in Las Vega, Nevada.  Several sessions are related to the study of the social uses and effects of information technology are hosted by the Communications and Information Technology Section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA). These are the connections among the people who recently tweeted the term “ASA2011″ on 18 [...]

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  Please vote on our SxSW 2012 panel: Social Mapping : Bridging Online & Offline Events   Event Interactive 2012 Format Workshop Organizer Emily Gannett ‐ IRL Productions Speakers Marc Smith ‐ Social Media Research Foundation Description Look up from your phone and you will notice that offline is not obsolete. Experiences in real life (IRL) remain powerful and memorable. Online [...]

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Here is a map of the connections among the people who tweeted the term “AEJMC” on August 7, 2011: The top most between people in this network are:@aejmc, @jlab, @karenrussell, @terryflynn, @natcomm, @tmccorkindale, @derigansilver, @tkell, @aejmconlineads, and @jeremyhl: I will present a Workshop on Social Media Network Analysis and NodeXL at the 9 August 2011 – [...]

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On June 22nd in New York City Wired Magazine and the Economist hosted a day of discussions and displays related to the theme of “Nextwork” hosted by Juniper Networks and located at the Tribeca Rooftop. The Social Media Research Foundation displayed and printed  Nextwork Networks maps of the connections among the people who tweeted about the conference, [...]

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Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Several years ago a program at the University of Maryland called “Webshop” (Web Workshop) was organized by Professor John Robinson and held for three consecutive Summers.  I visited and spoke at two of these events and know many people who attended or spoke [...]

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29 June – 2 July 2011 Queensland University of Technology Tweet with the hashtag #ct2011 http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ C&T 2011 OVERVIEW The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. [...]

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