Connected Action

I will present a workshop on social media network analysis at the next Network Singularity event at Fort Mason on the Bay in San Francisco on April 30, 2010. Bay Area and Silicon Valley Network: Special Action/Research Event Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Social Network Analysis, Tools and Media Friday 30 April 2010 8:00am -5:00pm [...]

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The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland has created disruption of air traffic around the world and particularly through Northern Europe.  A similar eruption of tweets has followed, focused around a series of hastags including “#ashtag”, “#ashcloud”, and “#volcano”. The #ashtag network is highlighted by well known technology bloggers. In contrast the map for the tag [...]

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The Twitter Chirp conference attracted tweets from many technology leaders and bloggers.  Here is a ranked list of the top most “between” people who tweeted the term “chirp” in the last day. A complete social network map, with edge thickness proportional to the number of network connections (follows, replies, mentions) that link the two participants [...]

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The CHI 2010 conference is well underway in Atlanta this week and lots of people are tweeting the #CHI2010 hash tag.  An updated NodeXL map of the connections among people who use the #CHI2010 tag is below: This is the network map of follows, replies, and mentions relationships among Twitter users who mentioned “CHI2010″ as [...]

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The right click menu is a source of many good things in NodeXL. In the graph pane, the right click menu contains several options of possible interest. This is a map of the recent connections among twitter users who tweeted the string “NodeXL”.  Each profile photo is scaled to the number of followers that person has. [...]

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If you are attending the CHI 2010 conference in Atlanta and are interested in social media network analysis, consider attending this tutorial: CN03: Introduction to Social Network Analysis Time: Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:30 to 18:00 Organizers: Marc A. Smith, C.S. Ang, Derek Hansen, Panayiotis Zaphiris Presenters: Derek Hansen, Panayiotis Zaphiris Benefits This course provides an [...]

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Last week I made a video with Norm Rose from Travel Tech Consulting about the ways different airlines get talked about in twitter.  Norm explores new technologies that impact the travel business and he asked me to create two maps: one for United Airlines and the other for Delta Airlines.  In the video below, we [...]

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I attended 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 have inserted them next to the link for slides where I had a picture (or a good one!).  The conference was very [...]

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Kate Niederhoffer and I presented a combined view of social media from the perspectives of social psychology and sociology.  Kate applies a linguistic background to analyze the content of social media while I bring social network analysis to bear on the structures created by connections created by links and replies. Beyond Buzz – Web 2.0 [...]

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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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