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November 8, 2011: University of Manchester, NodeXL SNA / Social Media Workshop

November 5th, 2011 · No Comments

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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#occupywallstreet NodeXL SNA Twitter Map for 8 October 2011

October 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment

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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November 22-25, 2011: Mobile Web in Africa – Johannesburg, South Africa – Social Media Mapping Workshop

October 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

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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Webshop 2011 review: 4 days, 20 talks, 45 students, an earthquake, a hurricane and many new connections

September 25th, 2011 · No Comments

    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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September 22-23, 2011: Purdue University – Lecture on Social Media Networks

September 16th, 2011 · No Comments

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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ASA 2011 – Las Vegas, NV: August 20-23 – Sociologists present on the social uses and effects of information technology

August 20th, 2011 · No Comments

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 panel: Social Mapping: Bridging Online & Offline Events

August 15th, 2011 · No Comments

  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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9 August 2011 – Social Media SNA Workshop – Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (http://www.aejmc.com/)

July 31st, 2011 · No Comments

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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23-26 August 2011 – Summer Social Webshop (Webshop 2.0) – The return of a great tradition

June 10th, 2011 · No Comments

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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2011 – Communities and Technologies Conference – 29 June – 2 July 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

May 1st, 2011 · No Comments

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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Video: Peter Kollock lectures on collective action dilemmas and the internet

April 28th, 2011 · No Comments

Below is one of the few videos of the late sociologist Peter Kollock giving a lecture that I know of.  It is a great example of Peter’s style: entertaining and rich with ideas and insights. The video captures Peter’s talk at Howard Rheingold’s Stanford class on “Literacy of Cooperation” – a review of computer-mediated collective [...]

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July 13-14, 2011 – Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program: NodeXL Workshop

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

I will be speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute on July 13 and 14, 2011 as part of the Summer Doctoral Program. I will speak about the use of social network analysis and visualization techniques to analyze and understand social media. The Summer Doctoral Program is designed to …bring together advanced doctoral students engaged in dissertation [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Common Goods · Conference · Connected Action · Foundation · NodeXL · Oxford · Research · SMRF · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Talks · Twitter · University · Visualization

July 17 – July 23, 2011 – NodeXL Session at Computational Social Science Workshop, Lipari Island, Italy

April 25th, 2011 · No Comments

I will be speaking at the Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research week long Lipari School on Computational Social Science , July 17 – July 23, 2011, Lipari Island, Italy. This year’s program is dedicated to Computational Social Science: Text and Decisions Speakers: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla: Director of the Center for Social Complexity, Krasnow [...]

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July 6th to July 13th, 2011 – Web Science Trust Graduate Summer School, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland

April 24th, 2011 · No Comments

Web Science Doctoral Summer School 2011 I will be attending and speaking at the upcoming 2011 Web Science Trust Graduate Summer School tobe held at DERI, NUI Galway Ireland from July 6th to July 13th, 2011.  I will speak about social media network analysis and run a workshop on using NodeXL.  There is a packed [...]

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Video: Talk at Personal Digital Archives 2011 at the Internet Archive (24 February 2011)

March 21st, 2011 · No Comments

I gave a talk at the Personal Digital Archives conference held at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California on 24 February 2011.  The videos of the talks at the event are now available from the Internet Archive web site. Here is a NodeXL map of the connections among the people who tweeted the term PDA2011 OR PDA11: [...]

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Tags: Common Goods · Conference · Foundation · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · SMRF · Social Media · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Talks · Visualization