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
Sparklines guide Dynamic Filters for social networks in NodeXL v.1.0.1.111
February 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Time for another NodeXL update: sparklines! Sparklines are a nifty and compact way of displaying a line chart in a small area.
Setting dynamic filters in NodeXL has been somewhat like rummaging around in the dark: without a way to see the distribution beneath a filter the user only knows the max and min values, not [...]
Tags: Metrics · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Sociology · User interface · Visualization
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
RWTH Aachen – Browse ACM conference networks over the web
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments
There are hundreds of conferences sponsored by the ACM on almost every topic related to computing. In some cases the same person will publish a paper in more than one conference, creating a tie between them. Below is a network map application that displays a collection of ACM conferences connected by this authorship tie: [...]
Tags: Aachen · Data Mining · Interdisciplinary · Metrics · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · University · Visualization · Web Application
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: 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
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 [...]
Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Twitter · Visualization · flickr
Social Media Network Analysis Workshop – October 29th in Mountain View, CA
September 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 to [...]
Tags: Community · Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · NodeXL · Research · Shameless self-promotion · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Visualization
Congressional Tweets Analyzed at UMD
September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 Their [...]
Tags: Community · Metrics · Papers · Research · Social Media · Twitter
Paper (using NodeXL!): Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources
September 25th, 2009 · No Comments
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, ACM, [...]
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Three papers on social media networks (and photos) at Social Computing 2009
September 12th, 2009 · No Comments
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 Nirvana
Bonsignore, E.M., [...]
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Recently, Stanford Media X Workshop – New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds
September 12th, 2009 · No Comments
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 Russell, Marc [...]
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