Connected Action

    Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Eventful.  The 2011 Webshop at the University of Maryland was certainly that with both an earthquake and a hurricane to mark the start and end of the event.  We really moved heaven and earth at this workshop. In 4  days, 20 talks, [...]

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The Social Media Research Foundation is dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship. These slides provide an overview of the goals and accomplishments of the Social Media Research Foundation: 20110830 Introducing the Social Media Research Foundation View more presentations from Marc Smith

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  Please vote on our SxSW 2012 panel: Social Mapping : Bridging Online & Offline Events   Event Interactive 2012 Format Workshop Organizer Emily Gannett ‐ IRL Productions Speakers Marc Smith ‐ Social Media Research Foundation Description Look up from your phone and you will notice that offline is not obsolete. Experiences in real life (IRL) remain powerful and memorable. Online [...]

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Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Several years ago a program at the University of Maryland called “Webshop” (Web Workshop) was organized by Professor John Robinson and held for three consecutive Summers.  I visited and spoke at two of these events and know many people who attended or spoke [...]

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Faculty Summit The 2010 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit was held July 12 and 13 in Redmond, Washington.  Among the many panels and discussions related to the state of computer science the NodeXL team had several representatives talking about the ways network science education can be expanded using an easy to use application for network analysis [...]

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Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) Michael Kearns Keynote Experiments: Graph Coloring / Consensus / Voting Topology of the Network vs. what was the network used for? Voting experiments – similar to consensus, with a crucial strategic difference. Introduce a tension between: -Individual preferences -Collective unity -Color choices; challenge comes from [...]

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Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) ***Microblogging 2*** Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment (Tumasjan et al.) Successful use of social media in las presidential campaign has established twitter as an integral part of political campaign toolbox Goal: analyze on Twitter: 1. Deliberation, 2. Sentiment, 3. [...]

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Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) We will be liveblogging (when possible) from ICWSM 2010, going on now! Keynote: Bob Kraut, CMU implications for community design -offline theories of socialization helpful, not definitive -online communities can build in good socialization practice -e.g. WP welcoming committee Two Types of Commitments to Groups [...]

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I spoke about social media with Natalia Martín Cantero, RTVE blogger and professor in digital new reporting at IE School of Communication-IE University in Segovia, Spain along with my colleague John Kelly, from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University and Founder of Morningside Analytics. The video was recorded at the symposium on Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. In this [...]

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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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Here is a great piece of social media research from the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies. Prof. Jen Golbeck and Justin Grimes analyzed 6,000 tweets from United States Congress members.  They found some interaction but a dominant broadcast pattern of use with a focus on self-promotion.  The Washington Post headlines the results as “Tweeting [...]

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@      The 2009 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco, California, August 8-11. The ASA attracts thousands of sociologists, a subsection of whom have  a passion for the study of the Internet and its many forms of social impacts and uses.  The Communications and Information Technology Section of the American Sociological Association [...]

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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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I just read a new paper from Jennifer Preece and Ben Shneiderman that provides a nice framework for the ways people contribute at different rates to collective projects in general and social media on the Internet in particular. Preece, Jennifer and Shneiderman, Ben (2009).  The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer [...]

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The recent 2009 ICWSM conference featured research into the nature of a wide range of social media. Some highlights: An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti Hearst Event Detection and Tracking in Social Streams Hassan Sayyadi, Matthew Hurst, Alexey Maykov Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks [...]

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