S01E08 – Social Media Clarity Podcast: Randy Farmer on why users always find a way to create objectionable content

30DecMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

In the latest episode of the Social Media Clarity podcast host Randy Farmer tells an industry story about the inevitability of end users creating content that offends someone. The post was originally on Randy’s blog at http://habitatchronicles.com/ and describes the effort to create a safe social space that would make offensive content creation all but impossible. He imagines a universal law of content creation: users will find a way. The result is “BlockChat” – a hypothetical minimal social media system designed in the hope of removing all objectionable content from the system, which inevitably fails. Randy Farmer’s story is about community moderation issues for early kid-centric virtual worlds but it applies to any collection of content and people. He read’s from his 2007 Habitat Chronicles blog post: The Untold History of Toontown’s SpeedChat (or BlockChat(tm) from Disney finally arrives).

Disney’s Hercworld, Toontown, and BlockChat(tm) – S01E08

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December 2, 2013: Social Media Clarity Podcast S01E07 – Live Streaming Video Game Play with TL Taylor and Jeffrey Shih

02DecMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

The 7th episode of the Social Media Clarity podcast is now out.
With big announcements from the game console companies, Live Streaming has been thrust into the mainstream. Join us as we discuss the phenomenon with a leading researcher and a full-time streamer.
We have two interviews this week: Author & Researcher T.L. Taylor and Live Streamer Jeffrey Shih aka Trumpsc on twitch.tv

T.L. Taylor

Live-streaming research
Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture

Jeffrey Shih (Trump)

Hearthstone Arena with Trump – Welcome to Value Town!
@trumpsc
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

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November 13 at 6pm: Data Community DC Workshop on Analyzing Social Media Networks using NodeXL

05NovMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I am excited to have the opportunity to present a NodeXL workshop at the DC Data Community on November 13th at 6pm in Washington, D.C.

In this session I will describe the ways NodeXL can simplify the process of collecting, storing, analyzing, visualizing and publishing reports about connected structures.

For example, this is a map of the connections among the people who recently tweeted about the DataCommunityDC Twitter account was created with just a few clicks and no coding:

This graph represents a network of 67 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained “DataCommunityDC“, taken from a data set limited to a maximum of 10,000 tweets. The network was obtained from Twitter on Tuesday, 05 November 2013 at 15:15 UTC.
The tweets in the network were tweeted over the 7-day, 16-hour, 4-minute period from Monday, 28 October 2013 at 22:38 UTC to Tuesday, 05 November 2013 at 14:42 UTC.
There is an edge for each “replies-to” relationship in a tweet. There is an edge for each “mentions” relationship in a tweet. There is a self-loop edge for each tweet that is not a “replies-to” or “mentions”.
The network has been segmented into groups (“G1, G2, G3…”) and each group is labeled with the words most frequently used in the tweets from the people in that group.
The size of each Twitter user’s profile picture represents the log scaled value of their follower count.
Analysis of the network location of each participant reveals the people in key locations in the network, people at the “center” of the graph.

They are:

@datacommunitydc
@datafest2013
@gabosama
@harlanh
@mlh_holmes
@terebouza
@greglinch
@intridea
@gilpress
@katiestriff

The top URLs mentioned in this network were:

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SLIDES: Boston DataSwap 2013 – Network Visualization in NodeXL by @codydunne

25OctMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

NodeXL team member Dr. Cody Dunne recenjtly presented these slides at the 2013 Boston DataSwap on Network Visualization in NodeXL
http://slidesha.re/1a5tbCY

Boston DataSwap 2013 — Network Visualization in NodeXL from codydunne

Social Media Clarity Podcast E05: Crowdsourcing, Volunteers, and the Sharing Economy

14OctMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

The 5th episode of the Social Media Clarity Podcast is now out:

Crowdsourcing, Volunteers, and the Sharing Economy

In this episode host Randy Farmer (@frandallfarmer) and I talk with new co-host Scott Moore (@scottmoore) about the promise and pitfalls of crowdsourcing.

We conclude that pixels, not pennies, may be the best currency to create incentives to create quality content.

October 2, 2013: Washington, DC NodeXL Meetup – Join us for an afternoon of social media network analysis

22SepMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

NodeXL users in the Washington DC area are welcome to join a free users group meetup on October 2, 2013 at 2pm.

There will be a morning session at the University of Maryland (9-11) and an afternoon session downtown.

If you’d like to attend, please complete this form.

I hope to see you there!

Social Media Clarity Podcast – E03 – Real Names for Social Order? Guest: Dr. Bernie Hogan (@blurky)

16SepMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

The Social Media Clarity Podcast has just released a new episode:

Save our Pseudonyms! Social Media Clarity S01E03

This is the “Real Names for Social Order?” episode, featuring guest sociologist: Dr. Bernie Hogan (@blurky) from the Oxford Internet Institute speaking with host Randy Farmer (@frandallfarmer) along with me & Bryce Glass (@bryceglass).

Building on the second episode which focused on the changes at the Huffington Post’s comment posting policy, in episode 3 we talk with Bernie Hogan who explains why sociologists are concerned by “context collapse” – the loss of the ability to be different people for different people – caused by social media. Sociological research suggests this is not a positive thing because humans have always maintained different roles for different groups of people and not all roles are commensurate. While time and place once kept separate roles separate, today the net makes any interaction into every interaction.

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September 20, 2013 – NodeXL Workshop at the University of Texas, Austin School of Journalism

30AugMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

On September 20, 2013 I will participate in a workshop on social media network analysis at the Community, Journalism & Communication Research Center at the School of Journalism in the College of Communication at the University of Texas – Austin

The event will start Friday at 11:00AM at the BELO CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA. Bring data, questions and a copy of NodeXL for hands-on assistance.

The workshop will focus on the application of social network analysis to social media and the content exchanged through it.

The graph represents a network of 780 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained “@utaustin”, taken from a data set limited to a maximum of 10,000 tweets. The network was obtained from Twitter on Friday, 30 August 2013 at 18:22 UTC. The tweets in the network were tweeted over the 2-day, 3-hour, 55-minute period from Wednesday, 28 August 2013 at 14:25 UTC to Friday, 30 August 2013 at 18:20 UTC.

Upcoming 2013 NodeXL / Social Media Network Analysis Training Events

23JulMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

Upcoming events, lectures and workshops related to NodeXL:

September 20, 2013:
School of Journalism, College of Communication, University of Texas – Austin

September 26-27, 2013
Universidad Externado, Bogota, Columbia

October 19, 2013:

Kredible.Net workshop, Stanford University, CA http://kredible.net/in/

October 24th, 2013:
Arizona State University

December 12 – 14 , 2013
DISC2013 International Conference on Social Network Analsysis in Daegu, South Korea – http://bit.ly/17LtWlo

August 2, 2013: NodeXL Meetup in DC at 1776DC

09JulMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

Please join me in Washington, D.C. for a NodeXL and social media analysis meetup and happy hour from 2-7 pm.

We will be meeting at:

http://1776dc.com/

1133 15TH ST. NW
12th floor
Washington, DC 20005

There will be a 3 hour hands-on tutorial on the use of NodeXL and broadly on social media network analysis. We will focus on the process of collecting, storing, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing insights into social media network graphs.

Many thanks to Maksim Tsvetovat (@maksim2042) for arranging the location.

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