I will attend and speak at a symposium being heldMarch 24-25, 2010 at the IE University Department of Communication in Segovia, Spain. The topic is: Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication.
“The Symposium aims to generate discussion on cutting-edge ideas in political communication, encourage international cooperation and unite scholars and practitioners.”
The symposium is organized with Center for Global [...]
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Talk at IE University in Segovia, Spain: Transnational Connections, March 24-25, 2010
March 11th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Community · Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network data providers (spigots) · NodeXL · Politics · Research · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Talks · University · Visualization
Talk at Israel Internet Association on February 22, 2010
March 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Annual Meeting of the Israel Internet Association (http://www.isoc.org.il (English)) was held February 22-23 2010. I spoke at this year’s meeting: http://www.isoc.org.il/conf2010/agenda.php?lang=en
Part 1
Part 2
The previous year’s conference website is at: http://www.isoc.org.il/conf2009/program.php
The Israel Internet Association is the official Israeli Chapter of the Internet Society. Their annual meeting is a central event of academics (sociologists, psychologists, [...]
Tags: Conference · Industry · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Talks
NodeXL update: v.1.0.110 – New histograms of network metrics on Overall Metrics worksheet
February 4th, 2010 · No Comments
In the most recent prior release of NodeXL we added new metrics that describe networks in terms of their number of components and the length of paths in those networks. In this release we automate creation of histograms of network metrics. It is useful to see the distribution of attributes like in-degree or betweenness to [...]
Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · Network metrics and measures · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Sociology
Path and Component Metrics, new in NodeXL v.1.0.1.109
January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
NodeXL has updated again (v.1.0.1.109) with new network metrics. The application now calculates path length data for your network, reporting the Maximum Geodesic Distance and the Average Geodesic Distance. The list of overall metrics NodeXL creates includes: Vertices (the number of nodes in the graph), Unique Edges, Edges With Duplicates, Total Edges, Self-Loops (Edges that point back at the node [...]
Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · Network metrics and measures · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology
Measuring Diversity on Facebook
December 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments
My colleagues on the Facebook Data Team recently posted the results of a study about the diversity of the Facebook user base.
Using surnames from users in the United States and comparing the rates at which those surnames occur in several ethnic populations, they were able to estimate the proportion of Facebook users within different populations [...]
Tags: Facebook · Measuring social media · Research · Sociology
Book: Communities in Cyberspace – Ten Years Later
December 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments
When the late Peter Kollock and I published Communities in Cyberspace with Routledge in 1999 there were few broadband connections, no iPhones, and little WiFi. Today, there is an ebook version of the book and Amazon sells a version for the Kindle, a device it was hard to even imagine when the book was written. [...]
Tags: Book · Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Sociology
Call for Papers – ICWSM 2010 – Washington, D.C. May 23-26
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Here is the Call for Papers for the
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10)
May 23-26, 2010
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
IMPORTANT DATES:
Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2009
Paper Submission: January 8, 2010
Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010
Paper Acceptance: March 3, 2010
Poster/Demo Acceptance: March 3, 2010
Workshop [...]
Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Ecology · Interdisciplinary · Measuring social media · Metrics · Papers · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Technology
flickr user, tag, and photo networks are now available in NodeXL
December 13th, 2009 · No Comments
NodeXL has had a rudimentary flickr tag network data spigot for some time but we have just added a number of features to this data importer that makes it much more useful.
You can now select the number of network levels to include, an optional sample image file can be included for each tag, and the [...]
Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Visualization · flickr
Video: Panel Discussion from November 19: Using Social Media to Grow and Market Your Business
December 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Video is now available from a panel hosted by the Women’s Affinity Group of O’Melveny & Myers’ Silicon Valley Office in Menlo Park on November 19th. Along with Karla Spormann, President and CEO Tendo Communications, Martin Eberhard, Co-founder and former CEO Tesla Motors, Patrick Ewers, Founder, Mindmavin LLC. We spoke about “Using Social Media to Grow [...]
Tags: Measuring social media · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Talks
Book: Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice
December 13th, 2009 · No Comments
The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice (OD2005/DIAC-2005) was held at Stanford University May 20-22, 2005. From that event there is now a book, Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, edited by Todd Davies and Seeta Peña Gangadharan (CSLI Publications, November 2009). All content in the book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share [...]
Tags: Book · Collective Action · Measuring social media · Papers · Politics · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Stanford · Technology
YouTube user and video networks in NodeXL v100+
November 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Starting in version 100 NodeXL has added a data import feature for extracting social networks from the associations between users and videos in YouTube. The new social media network data spigot offers insights into the ways YouTube is socially structured. This spigot joins the existing twitter, flickr, and email data import providers present in NodeXL. [...]
Tags: Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social network · Video · Visualization · YouTube
Oxford Internet Institute: Forum on Relationships and the Internet December 4th
November 28th, 2009 · No Comments
On December 4th, I will be attending the Oxford Internet Institute’s Forum on Relationships and the Internet which will feature researchers focused on computer-mediated relationships. Rather than being used primarily to access information, people often use networked computing to access people, creating or sustaining relationships with others. There are many ways in which the Internet [...]
Tags: Conference · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · University
Video: Using NodeXL to map the “digg” mentioning Twitter population
November 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments
This is a brief demo video about NodeXL analyzing Twitter social network connections among a group of users who all mentioned the term “digg”.
2009 – November – NodeXL – Demo – Mapping Twitter Social Networks “Digg” from Marc Smith on Vimeo.
This is a good demonstration of several features in NodeXL: social media network importers (in [...]
Tags: Community · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Twitter · Video · Visualization
Mobile Web Africa – October 13-14, 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa
October 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Next week I will be attending and discussing mobile social media and social networks at the Mobile Web Africa conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is my first time to Africa and I am excited to both visit and to discuss how mobile networked devices can change social organizations. Mobile devices are in many ways more [...]
Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Ecology · Industry · Location · Measuring social media · Medical sensors · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · NodeXL · Privacy · Sensors · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks
Twitter & flickr networks in NodeXL – Version 95: Lots of new features! Improved Performance!
October 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments
Version 95 of NodeXL is hot off the compiler and we are pleased to announce several major features that create a social media network analysis dashboard. From the NodeXL interface it is now possible to import networks from twitter, flickr, email, and a range of social network file formats. Coming soon: support for more spigots [...]
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