Connected Action

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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The network created by “Who follows who among the people who tweeted “#CHI2010″. Node size is proportional to total tweets. Generated with NodeXL
On October 29th, I will be offering a workshop in Mountain View, California on the application of social network analysis to the measurement of social media.
The workshop will run from 9m to [...]

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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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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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Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web
Held in conjunction with SocialCom ‘09
29th-30th August, Vancouver, Canada
http://thesocialmobileweb.org
The mobile space is evolving at an astonishing rate. At present there are over 3.5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide and with continued advances in devices, services and billing models, the mobile web looks set to inspire a new age [...]

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My colleague Scott Sargent at Telligent notes that there are two sections of the March 29th Sunday New York Times feature articles illustrated with network graphs.  The Business section runs an article “Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?“ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html) and the Style Section has an article on The Celebrity Twitter Ecosystem.

My colleague Prof. Ben Shniederman [...]

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Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy is hosting a conference on “Studying Society in a Digital World”
Thursday - Saturday, April 23-25, 2009 at Princeton University
http://citp.princeton.edu/front/conference-studying-society-in-a-digital-world/
Here are some standout people and talks at the conference:
Lada Adamic, Michigan
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft: 
Through the Lens of a Large Instant-Messaging Network: Planetary-Scale Views on Behavior

Nathan Eagle, MIT: 
Scaling of Sociodynamics

Michael Macy, [...]

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On the theme of  instrumenting the interaction order, here is Tanzeem Choudhury (from Dartmouth) giving a talk titled: “Using Sensors to Make Sense of People: Inferring the Micro and Macro Level Properties of Social Networks from Mobile Sensor Data” which she delivered March 2, 2009 as part of the Program on Networked Governance CCCSN Seminar.

Program on [...]

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In my paper From Hyperlinks to Hyperties in  The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors; which came from the symposium of the same name at Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia).  I propose one of the ways mobile devices and social software will change the nature of [...]

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The great sociologist Erving Goffman wrote a number of influential works about a domain of social life he called the “interaction order”, the realm of interactions between people.  Goffman studied how interactions are structured in the most common settings like how people pass by each other in hallways, manage eye contact, or show that they [...]

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After a lovely dinner you order a third glass of wine, take a sip and your mobile phone rings.
Its your health insurance company’s computer. You take the call.
“We’re delighted to see you are enjoying yourself this evening!” the cheerful voice synthesis exclaims.
“Please note, however, that you are now at the policy limit for blood [...]

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The next meeting of the “Quantified Self” group will be held on January 27th, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.
The group focuses on the emerging practice of recording lots of data about your physical state and activity.  Its where life logging meets populations of people grappling with illness or seeking optimal [...]

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After ten years at Microsoft Research I have decided it is time to move on.  My time at MSR has been a remarkable one.  I have had the opportunity to work with very smart and focused people intent on making technical strides on many defining aspects of computing.  It has been a pleasure to work [...]

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