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Recently, Stanford Media X Workshop – New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds

September 12th, 2009 · No Comments

On August 5th and 6th I led a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer. New Metrics for New Media:  Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds Organizers:  Martha [...]

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Tags: Community · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Interaction · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Visualization

Summer 2009 – Stanford Media X Workshop: New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds

May 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I will lead a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer.  I am looking forward to working with the folks at Media X which hosts a range of [...]

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Tags: Cultural Representations · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Social Media · Social Roles · Sociology · Talks · Technology · Visualization

Social Media stakeholders: community roles

December 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Here are a few of the major stakeholders that gather around any social media effort.  Each role can be further divided into sub roles who specialize in particular kinds of behavior like starting discussions, arguments, or answering questions. Each stakeholder has information needs that are related but somewhat different from other stakeholders.  Building effective social media systems requires delivering [...]

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Tags: Community · Research · Social Media · Sociology