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Workshop on Research 2.0

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

A while back I posted links to some research on Web 2.0 tools and scientific collaboration. For anyone who might be interested, there is a Workshop on Research 2.0 offered as part of the next Conference on e-Social Science. The call for papers was recently posted, and abstracts are due on 15 May, 2008.
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Tags: Conference · Multi-disciplinary · Research

Social Media and Scientific Collaboration

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I saw an article posted to Slashdot yesterday about how scientists are using Web 2.0 tools to facilitate collaboration. The original piece, published in Scientific American, offers some food for thought around these parts. The article is pretty basic, but it covers several of the key pros and cons of using these technologies from the […]

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Tags: Multi-disciplinary · Research · Social Media · Technology

Conference: CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Increasingly, technical conferences are featuring topics that make them look like sociology conferences! The upcoming Conference on Information and Knowledge Management describes itself as targeted at the “database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems.” But […]

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Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Research · Social Media · Sociology

Where Sociology meets the Internet

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Welcome to all those Interested in sociology, technology, social media, mobile social software, or any and all forms of online communication. This blog is intended as a repository for information about research on computer-mediated collective action from a sociological perspective. Many people, from marketing, research and development, engineering, academic research, to managers of e-business […]

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Tags: Research · Social Media · Sociology · Technology