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Sociology and the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Social Software

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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Tags: Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Maryland · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Technology · Video · Visualization

Video: Natalia Martín talks to Marc Smith and John Kelly about Social Media Analysis

April 25th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Collective Action · Conference · Measuring social media · Politics · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Video

Video: Interviews at IE University Transnational Connections Symposium in Segovia, Spain

April 21st, 2010 · No Comments

In March, 2010 I had the pleasure of attending and speaking in Segovia, Spain at the IE University Department of Communication at the symposium on Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. The symposium is organized with Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.  I participated in a video interview with several [...]

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Tags: Conference · Connected Action · Measuring social media · Politics · Social Interaction · Social Media · Talks · Video

How do airline twitter network maps compare? United v. Delta Airlines mapped in NodeXL

April 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Last week I made a video with Norm Rose from Travel Tech Consulting about the ways different airlines get talked about in twitter.  Norm explores new technologies that impact the travel business and he asked me to create two maps: one for United Airlines and the other for Delta Airlines.  In the video below, we [...]

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Tags: Companies · Connected Action · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network clusters and communities · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Video · Visualization

Talk at Israel Internet Association on February 22, 2010

March 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Annual Meeting of the Israel Internet Association (http://www.isoc.org.il (English)) was held February 22-23 2010. I spoke at this year’s meeting: http://www.isoc.org.il/conf2010/agenda.php?lang=en Part 1 Part 2 The previous year’s conference website is at: http://www.isoc.org.il/conf2009/program.php The Israel Internet Association is the official Israeli Chapter of the Internet Society.  Their annual meeting is a central event of academics [...]

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Tags: Conference · Industry · Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Talks

Video: Panel Discussion from November 19: Using Social Media to Grow and Market Your Business

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Video is now available from a panel hosted by the Women’s Affinity Group of O’Melveny & Myers’ Silicon Valley Office in Menlo Park on November 19th.  Along with Karla Spormann, President and CEO Tendo Communications, Martin Eberhard, Co-founder and former CEO Tesla Motors, Patrick Ewers, Founder, Mindmavin LLC.  We spoke about “Using Social Media to Grow [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Talks

YouTube user and video networks in NodeXL v100+

November 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Starting in version 100 NodeXL has added a data import feature for extracting social networks from the associations between users and videos in YouTube.  The new social media network data spigot offers insights into the ways YouTube is socially structured.  This spigot joins the existing twitter, flickr, and email data import providers present in NodeXL. [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social network · Video · Visualization · YouTube

Video: Using NodeXL to map the “digg” mentioning Twitter population

November 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments

This is a brief demo video about NodeXL analyzing Twitter social network connections among a group of users who all mentioned the term “digg”. 2009 – November – NodeXL – Demo – Mapping Twitter Social Networks “Digg” from Marc Smith on Vimeo. This is a good demonstration of several features in NodeXL: social media network [...]

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Tags: Community · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Twitter · Video · Visualization

VIDEO: NodeXL demo from Eduarda from Microsoft Research Cambridge at EU Innovation Day event

May 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

My colleague, Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez, recently demoed NodeXL at the Microsoft EU Innovation Day event in Brussels, Belgium.  She illustrates the value of network analysis in general with a social network diagram representing the voting patterns of United States Senators in 2007.  The results show the clear party-line clustering and the presence of a few fence sitters, [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Video · 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 [...]

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

Video: Some dimensions of social media talk at ICWSM 2008

December 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2008 Some dimensions of social media Marc Smith Talk reviews sociological concepts of social media and visualizations of computer-mediated collective behavior. Slides: 2008 – ICWSM – Marc Smith – Some Dimensions Of Social Media View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: telligent marc)

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Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Research · Shameless self-promotion · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Visualization