Connected Action

Below is one of the few videos of the late sociologist Peter Kollock giving a lecture that I know of.  It is a great example of Peter’s style: entertaining and rich with ideas and insights. The video captures Peter’s talk at Howard Rheingold’s Stanford class on “Literacy of Cooperation” – a review of computer-mediated collective [...]

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I will be speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute on July 13 and 14, 2011 as part of the Summer Doctoral Program. I will speak about the use of social network analysis and visualization techniques to analyze and understand social media. The Summer Doctoral Program is designed to …bring together advanced doctoral students engaged in dissertation [...]

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I will be speaking at the Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research week long Lipari School on Computational Social Science , July 17 – July 23, 2011, Lipari Island, Italy. This year’s program is dedicated to Computational Social Science: Text and Decisions Speakers: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla: Director of the Center for Social Complexity, Krasnow [...]

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Web Science Doctoral Summer School 2011 I will be attending and speaking at the upcoming 2011 Web Science Trust Graduate Summer School tobe held at DERI, NUI Galway Ireland from July 6th to July 13th, 2011.  I will speak about social media network analysis and run a workshop on using NodeXL.  There is a packed [...]

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On 11 March 2011, I will be speaking at: Organizational and Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Organizational Networks, Analytics and Media Along with Valdis Krebs, Chief Scientist, http://thenetworkthinkers.com/ Valdis will be speaking about Organizational Network Analysis - Introduction to Enterprise Networks, followed by a InFlow 3.1 Workshop: Social Network Analysis with InFlow 3.1 I will be speaking about Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL. Preservation [...]

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The United States State of the Union address this year will be held Tuesday evening, 25 January 2011. The event is a globally visible opportunity for the President of the United States to present the Administration’s vision for its agenda for the year to the people of the US and the world. The hashtag #stateoftheunion [...]

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Mapping Social Networks with NodeXL: Finding Direction in a Sea of Connection The Community Foundation for Monterey County has a Social Network Support project that has already applied network analysis techniques to map networks of nonprofit organizations (http://www.cfmco.org/index.cfm/id/18/Social-Network-Support/). They recognize that awareness and improved methods of working in networks can provide opportunities for new ideas, increase [...]

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On Saturday 11 December 2010 A Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom (http://personaldemocracy.com/pdfleaks) was held in New York City. I did not attend in person, but the event was streamed live.  A colleague of mine, Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc), a sociologist from the University of Maryland ebiquity group, did attend and spoke on the second panel of [...]

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On November 8th, 2010 I spoke in Seoul, Korea at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture on the topic of “Smart Society and Civic Culture“. 2010-November-8-NIA – Smart Society and Civic Culture – Marc Smith View more presentations from Marc Smith. Several of my colleagues also spoke at the event, including Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki from [...]

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I returned to South Africa to attend the 2010 edition of Mobile Web Africa, a conference focused on the remarkable adoption and development of mobile networks and technology in Africa. The conference took place on 29th & 30th September 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. I presented a workshop on social media network analysis, see: http://www.mobilewebafrica.com/marc-smith-workshop.php [...]

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The Second Workshop on Information in Networks September 24-25, 2010, New York City Sponsored in part by the Initiative on Information in Networks Organizers: Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, Arun Sundararajan The second Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN10) will be held this year September 24-25, 2010, again in New York City. From the program description: [...]

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Cover art and promotional flier for Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world.

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Ben Shneiderman spoke on June 2, 2010 at the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University in an event organized by UPA Israel and the Leon Recanati School of Business. Ben Shneiderman: Methods and Tools for Facilitating Social Participation from User Experience Israel (UXI) on Vimeo. Nice review of information visualization techniques and some mention of [...]

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I spoke on June 4th at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City about what social media network maps can tell us about various political figures and topics. The video is available here: http://streams.civicolive.com/stream/127/5040/6000. Political discussions are obviously a major area of social media use. This talk explores the ways social network analysis and visualization [...]

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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 The ICWSM 2010 conference starts Sunday.  This is a very high quality conference on the study of social media.  My colleague, Professor Derek Hansen, and I will [...]

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