Marc Smith’s Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-01
@RicardoCP Thanks for the tweet about NodeXL! Plz post any support Q's on the codeplex board http://tinyurl.com/5d7oew What data interests? in reply to RicardoCP #
Marc Smith’s Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-22
@israelblechman looking for network visualizations in C# and .Net, and free? See http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl # @makovec Thanks for the tweet! NodeXL has just updated: see http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl # Facebook network edge list app: http://ping.fm/kx67h # My colleague Bernie Hogan at the Oxford…
Conference: Social Computing 2009 in Vancouver, B.C. August 29-31
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…
Video: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Harry Brignull, a User Experience Consultant, recently mentioned this on the Anthrodesign email list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GfOhFZkY8 This is one of the great works of empirical sociology: using a time lapse camera (and an analog clock) to study the flow of people…
From Hyperlinks to Hyperties: Extending Goffman to Mobile Social Software
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…
Electrification of the Interaction Order, or, eGoffman
The great sociologist Erving Goffman wrote a number of influential works about a domain of social life he called the "interaction order", the realm of interactions between people. Goffman studied how interactions are structured in the most common settings like…