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 [...]
Book in progress: “Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World”
January 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: Book · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Visualization
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. [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Book · Collective Action · Measuring social media · Papers · Politics · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · 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 [...]
Tags: Book · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Papers · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · 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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