Connected Action

Sociology and the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Social Software

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Social Sorting for Email

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

In a recent Guardian column, Cory Doctorow discusses his tips and tricks for email. He highlights his favorite piece of “email ninjitsu” - sorting by subject - in this boingboing post. But what caught my attention was this bit from the full article text:
Colour-code messages from known senders
Somewhere in the guts of your email client […]

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Tags: email · shameless self-promotion

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

Interdisciplinary Communication

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I had the opportunity to chat with Michael Joroff of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning the other day, and we had an interesting conversation about the importance of being able to bridge boundaries between disciplines. He said the world has come to the point where the most successful people are multi-lingual - that is, […]

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Tags: Interdisciplinary · Multi-disciplinary · Sociology · Talks · Technology

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