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NodeXL book advertisement runs in Interactions Magazine from the ACM

September 15th, 2010 · No Comments

The book Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world has recently published from Morgan-Kaufman.  It is nice to see the advertisement for the book running in the current edition of Interactions Magazine from the ACM. Thanks to Adam Perer for the blurb!

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Tags: Book · Connected Action · Foundation · NodeXL · Research · SMRF · Social Media · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Visualization

Book: Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world now available

September 13th, 2010 · No Comments

In Stock! The book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world is now available [Amazon] from Morgan-Kaufman. Co-authored by Professor Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) and Professor Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) from the University of Maryland and Marc Smith from Connected Action, the book is a introduction and guide to the [...]

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Tags: Book · Connected Action · Foundation · Maryland · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network clusters and communities · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Research · SMRF · Social Media · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · University · Visualization

Book: Flier and Cover Art – Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world

June 19th, 2010 · No Comments

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

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Tags: Book · Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Connected Action · Maryland · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network clusters and communities · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Performance scale parallel and cloud computing · Research · Social Media · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Social Roles · Sociology · University · User interface · Visualization

Book in progress: “Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World”

January 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Along with Professors Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) and Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) from the University of Maryland I am writing and editing a book about analyzing the social media networks that form whenever people link or reply to one another, favorite, rate, read, or edit data about other people or their objects.  Social media [...]

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Book: Communities in Cyberspace – Ten Years Later

December 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments

When the late Peter Kollock and I published Communities in Cyberspace with Routledge in 1999 there were few broadband connections, no iPhones, and little WiFi.  Today, there is an ebook version of the book and Amazon sells a version for the Kindle, a device it was hard to even imagine when the book was written.  [...]

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Tags: Book · Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Sociology

Book: Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice (OD2005/DIAC-2005) was held at Stanford University May 20-22, 2005. From that event there is now a book,  Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, edited by Todd Davies and Seeta Peña Gangadharan (CSLI Publications, November 2009).  All content in the book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share [...]

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Tags: Book · Collective Action · Measuring social media · Papers · Politics · Research · Social Media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology · Stanford · Technology

Book: E-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice

August 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

A new book E-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice edited by Nicholas W. Jankowski on the ways social science research is being changed by the rise of social media has just been released by Routledge.  My colleagues and I contributed a chapter on the ways that information visualization of social media is a useful technique to [...]

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Tags: Book · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Papers · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology

Sociology of the Internet Awards from CITASA – The Communications and Information Technology section of the American Sociological Association

May 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This year’s CITASA awards have been announced!  CITASA is the Communications and Information Technology section of the American Sociological Association.  It gathers together more than 300 sociologists interested in the ways groups of people make use of computation and networks. This year the line up is uniformly high quality scholarship about the nature of societies [...]

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