I participated in a webinar hosted by the Prospect Research Institute. We discussed the ways that NodeXL can simplify the task of collecting social media and social network data. The tool generates easy to understand reports that highlight insights into connected structures.
The slides associated with the talk can be found here:
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World
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
Live-streaming research
Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture
Hearthstone Arena with Trump – Welcome to Value Town!
@trumpsc
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
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I spoke in a webinar on Data Visualization and NodeXL hosted by SoftArtisans and now available on Vimeo.
Thanks to Claire and Elise!
I spoke about my concerns with the continued belief in selective sharing. I argue at this TedX Bay Area talk that it is unwise to expect that digital information systems are capable of privacy or selective sharing. In other words, it is a dangerous myth to believe in a feature that in practice fails regularly and by design. In fact, it seems that it is practically impossible to create any digital information system that is secure.
In such a world we may want to reconsider our sharing practices, particularly if they were built on the idea of selective sharing. If any of your digital information is something you would rather not share publicly, you may want to rethink the idea that you can keep your information private.
If you are building an information system, you may want to rethink the idea that you can offer selective sharing in a reliable form.
Thanks to the folks at TedX Bay Area, particularly Tatyana Kanzaveli for the opportunity to work out these thoughts and share them.
Here are the slides that were used in the talk:
Here is a video interview I did with Martin Hawksey about social media network analysis:
Martin Hawksey 
is the JISC CETIS Learning Technology Advisor (OER Programme Support)
Thanks to Martin for the time!
Below is one of the few videos of the late sociologist Peter Kollock giving a lecture that I know of. It is a great example of Peter’s style: entertaining and rich with ideas and insights. The video captures Peter’s talk at Howard Rheingold’s Stanford class on “Literacy of Cooperation” – a review of computer-mediated collective action in Winter 2005. Peter speaks about strategies to avoid or resolve social dilemmas, covering the Tragedy of the Commons and Prisoner’s Dilemma situations, and applying these concepts to social media and Internet collective action.
A podcast from the Yi-Tan conference call was devoted to a discussion of Peter Kollock’s work.
If you know of additional videos of Peter, please send them my way! marc-at-connectedaction-dot-net
I gave a talk at the Personal Digital Archives conference held at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California on 24 February 2011. The videos of the talks at the event are now available from the Internet Archive web site.
Here is a NodeXL map of the connections among the people who tweeted the term PDA2011 OR PDA11:
The top most between people in this graph were: @anarchivist, @blefurgy, @naypinya, @rodanda, @jeffubois, @scottros, @evancaroll, @kevinmarks, @vurayav, and @sshreeves.
Here is the video from my talk:
Two recent videos featured on FlowingData tell the story of information abundance and the need for information visualization to grasp its meaning.
See: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/ for the recent BBC documentary featuring Professor Hans Rosling and his entertaining presentation of historical changes in world health and wealth statistics over two hundred years.
A related video is Journalism in the Age of Data by Geoff McGhee from the Digital Journalism Program at Stanford University.
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 recent work on the NodeXL project.
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 video interview, John and I summarize the themes discussed at the symposium including the political implications of inequality of technology access and the literacy to use it. John describes his efforts to map the global blogosphere and I describe the ways social media creates social networks that can be extracted and mapped. What does it take to be a communicator in a digital media environment? We discuss the privacy rights of public data and the use of data in ethical ways. Not everyone with a fiber-optic cable and server room operates under ethical guidelines. Given that digital communication is inherently traceable communication, could it be that not everyone should take the risks of communicating? Digital communication makes messages more findable and available which is a virtue when you want your message heard widely. It is getting harder to limit distribution of content to select audiences. I like to argue that the destiny of all information is to be made public if only because information never becomes less public.
IE University has a YouTube channel with lots of interesting video (in English and Spanish) related to communication, innovation, and social media.