Our (Vladimir D. Barash, Marc Smith, Lise Getoor, Howard T. Welser ) poster paper, Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context has been accepted and published at the 2009 ICWSM (International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media) conference which will be held in San Jose, California this May 17, 2009 – [...]
PAPER: ICWSM 2009 – Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Collective Action · Community · Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · Papers · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology
Social Media Roles: spammers and flamers
December 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Answer people and discussion people are critical to many social media spaces. Many hosts of communities want to attract and retain them. When these types of participants contribute to a social media space the results can be very positive: questions asked are answered, topics introduced are discussed. But not all participants make a positive contribution, [...]
Tags: Community · Data Mining · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Sociology · Visualization
Social media roles: patterns of behavior over time
December 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Participants in social media are not all the same. People who contribute to social media come in “flavors” that are created by each participant’s patterns of activity and connection. In the post “Distinguishing social network attributes of online social roles ” some of the social network features of different participants are illustrated. Participants vary in [...]
Tags: Community · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Technology
