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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 [...]

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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

2009 April 28: National Initiative for Social Participation meeting at the University of Maryland

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

A few weeks ago I attended a meeting at the University of Maryland in College Park of a working group proposing a new “National Initiative for Social Participation”.  The meeting brought together people from the major universities, research labs, and government funding agencies to think about an “Apollo Program for Social Media”.  The idea is [...]

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Tags: Community · Conference · Interdisciplinary · Location · Measuring social media · Metrics · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Research · Sensors · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Uncategorized

Slides: Autobiography, Mobile Social Life-Logging and the Transition from Ephemeral to Archival Society

May 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy

Here is the slide deck I presented at the “Studying Society In A Digital World” conference at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.  They just posted most of the conference slides.  I took some pictures and posted to flickr.  Here is the slide deck I presented along [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Community · Location · Measuring social media · Medical sensors · Metrics · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Research · Sensors · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Technology