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Slides: NodeXL overview: social media network analysis

December 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Here is a recent slidedeck that provides an overview of NodeXL and social media network analysis.
2009 December NodeXL Overview
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The deck illustrates the use of NodeXL to extract several social media networks from systems like twitter and facebook to generate maps of communities and identify people and objects in key locations.

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Tags: Collective Action · Connected Action · Data Mining · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Twitter · Visualization

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 Roles · Social network · Sociology · Stanford · Technology

Workshop December 15th: Create your own twitter social network map

November 28th, 2009 · No Comments

On December 15th in Mountain View, California join me for lunch and a workshop on creating social media network diagrams!  We will provide a hands-on guide to creating maps of the collections of connections among people who tweet about various brands, topics, events, and concepts. Bring your own Windows/Office 2007 machine and we will set you [...]

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Tags: NodeXL · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Twitter · Visualization

Social Media Talks at Aachen University, December 7th & 8th

November 28th, 2009 · No Comments

After visiting the Oxford Internet Institute on December 4th, I will be visiting Aachen University to talk about social media network analysis this December 7th and 8th.

I will be visiting with my hosts, Zinayida Petrushyna and Ralf Klamma who have been doing insightful work exploring social media sites like Media Wikis and Wikipedia.  The Wiki Watcher [...]

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Tags: Aachen · Social Media · Social network · Talks · University

Oxford Internet Institute: Forum on Relationships and the Internet December 4th

November 28th, 2009 · No Comments

On December 4th, I will be attending the Oxford Internet Institute’s Forum on Relationships and the Internet which will feature researchers focused on computer-mediated relationships.  Rather than being used primarily to access information, people often use networked computing to access people, creating or sustaining relationships with others.  There are many ways in which the Internet [...]

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Tags: Conference · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · University