A recent paper makes use of NodeXL to create illustrations of data from connections among twitter users drawn from the United States presidential debates in October 2008. One illustration highlights the major clusters in the network. Tweet the Debates: Understanding…
A new free and open project to implement a web based social network visualization front end is available on Codeplex: the "Information Connections Engine (ICE) is a Silverlight based framework that allows .net developers to easily visualize any type of…
Network graphs are appearing in a number of places. Recently, slate.com published a tool that maps the links between entities in the day's news. "To use this interactive tool, just click on a circle to see which stories mention that…
Network graphs are appearing in a number of places. Recently, slate.com published a tool that maps the links between entities in the day's news. "To use this interactive tool, just click on a circle to see which stories mention that…
This weekend is the Social Computing 2009 conference in Vancouver, B.C. It is a gathering of many people doing research on social media useage. Many papers are about tagging systems, blogs, wikis, message boards, and social networking services. [flickrset id="72157622064119361"…
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The 2009 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco, California, August 8-11.
The ASA attracts thousands of sociologists, a subsection of whom have a passion for the study of the Internet and its many forms of social impacts and uses. The Communications and Information Technology Section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA) is the group that gathers many forms of social science research on the creation and uses of information technology. This year’s meeting included two CITASA panels, round tables, a business meeting with awards, and a (windy!) boat ride through San Francisco Bay and beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.
[flickrset id=”72157621864662135″ thumbnail=”square”]The CITASA sponsored papers at the conference are listed below. The range of work illustrates the continued interest in social science studies of the impacts of information technology.