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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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The 2009 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco, California, August 8-11.
The ASA attracts thousands of sociologists, a subsection of whom have  a passion for the study of the Internet and its many forms of social impacts and uses.  The Communications and Information Technology Section of the American Sociological Association [...]

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A new book E-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice edited by Nicholas W. Jankowski on the ways social science research is being changed by the rise of social media has just been released by Routledge.  My colleagues and I contributed a chapter on the ways that information visualization of social media is a useful technique to [...]

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2009 – JCMC- Discussion Catalysts – Himelboim, Gleave and Smith

JCMC Article: Discussion Catalysts

My co-authors Eric Gleave, from the University of Washington, Department of Sociology and Itai Himelboim, from the University of Georgia, Department of Communications, are pleased to note the publication of our paper “Discussion catalysts in online political discussions: Content importers and conversation starters“ in [...]

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I just read a new paper from Jennifer Preece and Ben Shneiderman that provides a nice framework for the ways people contribute at different rates to collective projects in general and social media on the Internet in particular.
Preece, Jennifer and Shneiderman, Ben (2009).  The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction [...]

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The Communities and Technologies conference is holding its 4th meeting in Penn State June 24-27.  This conference gathers a range of scholars interested in online community, social media, social networks, and mobile social software.  A paper “Analyzing (Social Media) Networks with NodeXL” has been accepted for publication in the conference!  Congrats to my co-authors!

Paper Title: Analyzing [...]

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The recent 2009 ICWSM conference featured research into the nature of a wide range of social media.
Some highlights:
An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti Hearst
Event Detection and Tracking in Social Streams
Hassan Sayyadi, Matthew Hurst, Alexey Maykov
Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks
Mathieu Bastian, Sebastian Heymann, Mathieu Jacomy
Information Diffusion [...]

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[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference]
10.30am A categorical model for discovering latent structure in social annotations (Said Kashoob)
Given a collection of web objects, users and tags, can we model the underlying tag generation process?
-Discover implict communities of interest?
-Categories of related tags?
-For given category, id most relevant objs for category
-compare categories
Initial thoughts: content-based topic modeling [...]

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[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference]
9-10AM: A Tempest: Or, on the Flood of Interest in Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and the Computational Treatment of Subjective Language (Lillian Lee)
-Sentiment analysis using discussion structure: clasify speeches in US congressional floor debates as supporting or opposing proposed legislation -Individual doc classifier -agreement (degree) classifier for pairs of [...]

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On Tuesday night Marc Smith and I will be presenting the poster for our paper, “Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context” at the International Conference for Weblogs and Social Media. You can find the poster, co-authored with Marc Smith (Telligent Systems), Lise Getoor (University of Maryland) and [...]

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Our (Vladimir D. Barash, Marc Smith, Lise Getoor, Howard T. Welser ) poster paper, Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context  has been accepted and published at the 2009 ICWSM (International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media) conference which will be held in San Jose, California this May 17, 2009 – [...]

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