I share the loss of Peter Kollock with the many people who knew him. Peter died Saturday after a motorcycle accident near his home. Many people in the social sciences and beyond have been influenced by Peter's works of scholarship,…
The next meeting of the "Quantified Self" group will be held on January 27th, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. The group focuses on the emerging practice of recording lots of data about your physical state…
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…
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…
Here are a few of the major stakeholders that gather around any social media effort. Each role can be further divided into sub roles who specialize in particular kinds of behavior like starting discussions, arguments, or answering questions. Each stakeholder has information needs that…
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…