Connected Action

A great conference on social aspects of technology is coming up soon: C&T 2009 June 25-27, 2009 The Pennsylvania State University Information Sciences and Technology Building In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A great conference on social media and related issues will be held this August in Vancouver: 2009 IEEE Social Computing Conference.  I will be reviewing for the conference and will be working on a couple of papers that will be submitted for review. http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/ Topics of particular interest for the conference include, but are not [...]

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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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NodeXL is growing in features and utility along with its user base. As we just crossed the 5,000 download milestone, it seems time for the next phase in the evolution of all software projects: t-shirts. We need an image, logo, or design that best reflects the NodeXL project and we would like your help!  If [...]

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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 [...]

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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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