Methodologies for Web and Social Media Data Analysis in Social Science and Policy Research CCSR Short Course Social Media Network Analysis using NodeXL November 9th 9.00 am – 5.30 pm. Marc Smith Social Media Research Foundation http://www.smrfoundation.org Course Summary: Networks are everywhere in the natural and social world. New tools are making the task of [...]
November 8, 2011: University of Manchester, NodeXL SNA / Social Media Workshop
November 5th, 2011 · No Comments
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Webshop 2011 review: 4 days, 20 talks, 45 students, an earthquake, a hurricane and many new connections
September 25th, 2011 · No Comments
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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September 22-23, 2011: Purdue University – Lecture on Social Media Networks
September 16th, 2011 · No Comments
I will speak at Purdue University on September 22 and 23, 2011 about mapping social media networks. My host is Sorin Matei, professor of Communications, who has been researching the social structure of social media networks. I will also speak at Professor Matei’s class: COM 63200 On-line Interaction and Facilitation Here is an example map of [...]
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23-26 August 2011 – Summer Social Webshop (Webshop 2.0) – The return of a great tradition
June 10th, 2011 · No Comments
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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July 13-14, 2011 – Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program: NodeXL Workshop
April 27th, 2011 · No Comments
I will be speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute on July 13 and 14, 2011 as part of the Summer Doctoral Program. I will speak about the use of social network analysis and visualization techniques to analyze and understand social media. The Summer Doctoral Program is designed to …bring together advanced doctoral students engaged in dissertation [...]
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10 March 2011: USC Marshall School of Business: Communication Technology Executive Roundtable
March 5th, 2011 · No Comments
Institute for Communication Technology Management http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/centers/ctm/events On March 10th, 2011 I will speak on a panel at the USC Marshall School of Business Institute for Communication Technology Management Executive Roundtable. TIME: March 10th, 11:00 AM LOCATION: Davidson Conference Center, USC Campus, Los Angeles, California TITLE: “Digital as Platform: Cloud, Apps & Mobile Networks” Moderator: Sherri [...]
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October 22nd, 2010: Marc Smith talk at Northwestern University
October 17th, 2010 · No Comments
I visited the SONIC group at Northwestern University for a talk about social media networks on October 22, 2010.
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Video: October 19, 2010: Marc Smith talk at the University of Michigan
October 17th, 2010 · No Comments
I spoke at the University of Michigan, School of Information on October 19th, 2010 about “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Mapping and Measuring Social Media Networks to Find Key Positions and Structures“. I demonstrated the ways social network data sets can be extracted from social media services like Facebook, Twitter, email, YouTube, and [...]
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September 23-24: UC Davis: SNA Training Workshop
September 21st, 2010 · No Comments
I will present a workshop on NodeXL at the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center‘s Community Engagement and Social Network Analysis workshop on September 23rd, 2010. Registration. CTSA Community Engagement and Social Network Analysis Workshop September 22-24, 2010 University of California Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center Sacramento, California OBJECTIVES Understand the basic concepts, [...]
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2010 Workshop on Information in Networks, September 24-25 at NYU
September 20th, 2010 · No Comments
The Second Workshop on Information in Networks September 24-25, 2010, New York City Sponsored in part by the Initiative on Information in Networks Organizers: Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, Arun Sundararajan The second Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN10) will be held this year September 24-25, 2010, again in New York City. From the program description: [...]
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Paper: Tech Report at University of Maryland on EventGraphs
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments
A new paper on visualizing social media has been released on the University of Maryland, Human Computer Interaction Laboratory tech report archive. Co-authored by Derek Hansen, myself, and Ben Shneiderman, the paper describes and visualizes the patterns of connections formed when people tweet about events like conferences and news stories. EventGraphs_2010_HCIL_Tech_Report http://www.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/tech-reports-search.php?number=2010-13 Hansen, D., Smith, [...]
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Video: Ben Shneiderman: Methods and Tools for Facilitating Social Participation
June 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Ben Shneiderman spoke on June 2, 2010 at the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University in an event organized by UPA Israel and the Leon Recanati School of Business. Ben Shneiderman: Methods and Tools for Facilitating Social Participation from User Experience Israel (UXI) on Vimeo. Nice review of information visualization techniques and some mention of [...]
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May 28th, 2010 – Workshop: Government Applications of Social Media Networks and Communities, University of Maryland, Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL)
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/ The HCIL Government Applications of Social Media Networks & Communities Workshop, as part of the 27th Annual Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) Symposium, at the University of Maryland, examined how social media can be systematically applied to increase civic participation on national priorities. When: Friday, May 28, 2010, 9:30am-4:00pm Where: CSIC Building, UMD, College Park Who: Government thought [...]
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May 23, 2010 – Tutorial: NodeXL and Social Media Network Analysis at ICWSM 2010
May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) May 23-26, 2010 George Washington University, Washington, DC Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence The ICWSM 2010 conference starts Sunday. This is a very high quality conference on the study of social media. My colleague, Professor Derek Hansen, and I will [...]
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Marc Smith joining Media-X at Stanford as a Visiting Scholar
April 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment
I am joining Media-X at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. I will work with Martha Russell and Chuck House in applying social network analysis to social media research. You can email me at masmith1@stanford.edu! Our next event will be in late July and will focus on the use of social media analysis for mapping patterns [...]
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