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University of Haifa and IBM Research talk on Social Media Networks, February 24, 2010

February 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments

After speaking at the Israel Internet Association conference February 22, I will speak at IBM Research in Haifa at an event co-sponsored by the University of Haifa Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the M.A. program in Sociology of Technology.  My hosts are Professor Gustavo Mesch from the university and Dr. Adam Perer from IBM [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Connected Action · IBM · NodeXL · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Talks · University · Visualization

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

Social Media Network Analysis Workshop – October 29th in Mountain View, CA

September 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The network created by “Who follows who among the people who tweeted “#CHI2010″. Node size is proportional to total tweets. Generated with NodeXL
On October 29th, I will be offering a workshop in Mountain View, California on the application of social network analysis to the measurement of social media.
The workshop will run from 9m to [...]

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Tags: Community · Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · NodeXL · Research · Shameless self-promotion · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Visualization

Video: Instrumenting the interaction order: Tanzeem Choudhury speaks at the Networked Governance CCCSN Seminar 2009-03-02

March 5th, 2009 · No Comments

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 on [...]

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Tags: Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Research · Sensors · Social network · Sociology · Technology · Visualization

NodeXL – a sample of user goals and research interests as a Wordle cloud

December 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Thanks to inspiration from Adam Perer, here is a Wordle.net picture of some of feedback text — a rough presentation of the ideas, topics and research goals submitted by a collection of attendees of a recent lecture on NodeXL at Harvard.  A recording of the slides and audio from the talk is available from the [...]

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Tags: Social network · Sociology · Visualization