A great conference on social aspects of technology is coming up soon: C&T 2009 June 25-27, 2009 The Pennsylvania State University Information Sciences and Technology Building In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings…
A great conference on social media and related issues will be held this August in Vancouver: 2009 IEEE Social Computing Conference. I will be reviewing for the conference and will be working on a couple of papers that will be…
In my paper From Hyperlinks to Hyperties in The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors; which came from the symposium of the same name at Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia). I…
A shout out to SMRF collaborators Eric Gleave, Howard (“Ted”) Welser, and Tom Lento – our paper “A conceptual and operational definition of “Social Role” in Online Community” got the best paper award at HICSS-42! The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences has featured a great series of mini tracks over the years. The Persistent Conversations mini track has featured great work on threaded conversations, blogs, chats, wikis, and social media for more than a decade. This year our paper appeared in the Digital Media: Content and Communication Track.
With a very nice letter that puts the award in some context:
Ten papers out of 515 at the conference were selected for Best Paper Awards. Many thanks to track organizers Karrie Karahalios and Fernanda Viegas.
A previous paper in 2006 also got best paper: You Are Who You Talk To: Detecting Roles in Usenet Newsgroups, by Danyel Fisher, Marc Smith, and Howard T. Welser
Two years before that in 2004 Fernanda Viegas and I also published a paper at HICSS that got best paper: Newsgroup Crowds and AuthorLines: Visualizing the Activity of Individuals in Conversational Cyberspaces,
by Ferndanda B. Viégas and Marc Smith.
Tom Erickson maintains a great listing of many years of HICSS papers.
Here is Tom Lento receiving the award at the conference in Hawaii earlier this month:
More Best Papers from this year…
Forester recently released its review of leading social media platforms. They conclude that communities are a powerful way for businesses to grow. Community and social media have ROI! The segment is getting crowded, over 100 vendors and growing, but only…
I love this paper from Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy and Mark Ackerman at WWW2008: Knowledge sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone knows something In particular, this image (figure 4) is a great use of an innovative way of…