I attended the "Studying Society In A Digital World" conference at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. They just posted most of the conference slides. I took some pictures and have inserted them next to the link…
Kate Niederhoffer and I presented a combined view of social media from the perspectives of social psychology and sociology. Kate applies a linguistic background to analyze the content of social media while I bring social network analysis to bear on…
My colleague Scott Sargent at Telligent notes that there are two sections of the March 29th Sunday New York Times feature articles illustrated with network graphs. The Business section runs an article "Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?" (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html) and…
I will be speaking with Kate Niederhoffer from Dachis at Web 2.0 Expo Wednesday, April 1st at 10.50 in San Francisco. We will be speaking about: Beyond Buzz: On Measuring a Conversation http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/6273 What is the most meaningful way to…
The 2009 meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis was recently held at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego's Mission Bay. Carter Butts delivered a talk about "simple things" that govern the structure of social networks like…
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…