From mirroring to guiding
State of the art research and development on online collaborative technologies. An excellent recent summary: We review a representative selection
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Author: Sorin Adam Matei
The Evolution of Research on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning – Springer
What is known (and unknown) about computer supported collaborative learning? This chapter summarizes two decades of research on computer-supported
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The impact of group formation in a cooperative learning environment
An article about group design and selection collaborative learning. This study investigates whether instructor-formed heterogeneous groups
Read MoreThought leaders in online learning
An absolutely fascinating article on how leaders modulate and stimulate learning in online environments. If fits in nicely with the
Read MoreCommunication and Collaboration in Open Source Software Projects: A Hazard Model of Sourceforge projects
Open Source Software projects that grow strong and well are associated with strong core developer groups, active peripheral communication and
Read MoreThe role of linker superusers in catalyzing online network evolution
An older study by Kumar et al. looking at Flickr and Yahoo 360 noticed not only the typical 80/20 distribution
Read MoreWill Your City See Snow on December 25th?
Snow on Christmas Day? Only if you live north of Indianapolis, or better yet, Chicago… via Will Your City See
Read MoreSuborbital flights are a waste of money and a lost cause
Suborbital tourism, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few minutes of levitation, is a definite waste of
Read MoreEstimote aka “OS For The Physical World” delivers beacon for precise, close encounter location aware applications
The great weakness of location aware mobile apps is precision and location relevance. Mobile apps that are supposed to push
Read MoreDoris Lessing Dies Leaving a Non-conformist legacy: her last interview
Dorris Lessig, once a Nobel Prize laureate, died today leaving behind a passion for exploding myths, especially her own. A
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Best Kennedy Space Center Launch Viewing Areas at Cape Canaveral Florida (Cocoa Beach and Titusville) Map (Kml, picture, schedule)
Best Spots to View a Cape Canaveral Launch Viewing a space rocket launch is a sight never to be forgotten
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Why so Similar? Identifying Semantic Organizing Processes in Large Textual Corpora by Drew Margolin, Yu-Ru Lin, David Lazer :: SSRN
An interesting paper on social network of interaction in raw texts… Luo Si might be intrigued by this… This paper
Read MoreWordPress Security: best practices, site hardening, remediation after an attack
Justin Jones: WordPress Security or Why Google Says You Shouldn’t Visit My Church | WordPress.tv.
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KredibleNet Workshop at Stanford U – Most intriguing topics and active interactions on Twitter
Crowdsourcing and social media trust emerged to be the most Twitter-discussed topics related to the second Kredible Net workshop on Trust,
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KredibleNet Workshop at Stanford University
On October 18, 2013 I co-organized a workshop in collaboration with MediaX (Martha Russell) and Social Media Research Foundation (Marc
Read MoreHumans Trump Robots at the Grocery Store, Yet Corporations Still Earn Money out of This
Self check-out machines are slower than check out clerks and many think that the race against robots is not lost.
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Google Defines Quantum Computing as An Exercise in Harnessing the Idea That There are Multiple Universes
? Google and NASA’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab – YouTube. What is Quantum Computing? According to this Google Video Clip,
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Life came to Earth on Comets? First Alien Encounter?
Algae-like biological entities were found in outer space in July 2013 by Sheffield University researchers, who collected the little critters
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Information Theory Reveals Size of Whale and Dolphin Communication Repertoires | MIT Technology Review
Entropy theory used to decipher complexity of animal communication…. Information Theory Reveals Size of Whale and Dolphin Communication Repertoires |
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US Military Scientists Solve the Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing | MIT Technology Review
The West Point Group on Network Science proposes a new method for determining the minimum number and the profile
Read MoreWaiting to become King
Given the current trends, little prince William Jr (until will be named) will have to wait a loooooong time to
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#Snowden #Prism revelations goads Google to reveal number of judicial requests by country
In the context of the Snowden and Prism scandal, Google released a transparency report, which discloses the number of judicial
Read MoreWhat and how large is PRISM, the NSA surveillance program leaked by Edward Snowden?
According to Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) leaker, the US government has recruited several major Internet
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Latest news about NSA leaker Snowden in his travels from Hong Kong to Moscow, Cuba and Ecuador
LEARN MORE ABOUT NSA, SNOWDEN’s FORMER EMPLOYER The Secret Sentry is an extraordinary book, providing much more information about the
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The latest on Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder
Not a billionaire, yet enjoying the limelight… Married for the third time, now to a Londoner, Jimmy Wales enjoys life
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Supreme Court gives states the last word on gay marriage
The Supreme Court decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as a union between a
Read MoreBarnes and Noble to spin off Nook HD
CNN announces that as the sales of barnes and Noble ereaders tumbled, the company reconsiders its strategy. Barnes & Noble
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Snowden National Security Agency (NSA) leaker – whistleblower on the way to Ecuador, where freedom of the press is curtailed
Mr. Snowden, the former Booz Allen employee and NSA contractor who has released details about a classified data management program
Read MoreHabemus Papam: White Smoke Emerges from the Sistine Chapel Chimney, Announcing the Election of a New Pope Francis I in 2013
According to Voice of America: “After only two days of voting, Roman Catholic cardinals elected Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio as
Read MoreCopyright Alert System Applies Nudge Theory to Prevent Naive Peer to Peer Network Users from Breaking the Copyright Law
A method of monitoring copyright infringing P2P traffic meant to notify users in real time that the content they are
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Richard III skeletal remains found in Leicester Grey Friars area (precise burial place map location, overlay kmz)
A team of British medieval archaeologists from University of Leicester goaded by a member of the Richard III Society has uncovered the skeletal
Read MoreLocation Map of Ankara, Turkey US Embassy Terror Bomb Attack 2013
At approximately 13:15 local time on 1 February
Read MoreWere WMD found in Iraq? Yes, on the battlefield. Between 2004 – 2009 Several Chemical Warfare Improvised Explosive Devices Were Found or Used
Perusing the Iraqi Sigact files acquired by Wikileaks, I found much to my surprise not only that WMD were found in Iraq,
Read MoreIn Amenas Hostage Crisis is not as close to Mali as some think (map)
Several Western workers were taken hostage in Algeria by Islamists, at the Tigantourine gas plant facility raising the specter of
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The best “Autoselect all Facebook friends” tool / extension / code snippet you will ever need to send bulk invitations to your friends
For many moons Facebook has been denying its digital sharecroppers to access all at once the capital that they have
Read MoreHow to create and embed a Like Widget for a Facebook Fan Page
A simple tutorial on how to generate the code needed to embed a Facebook
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Cultivation Theory and Mass Communication Research, From Left to Right
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Cultivation
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Is Social Media a Spiral of Silence Machine? From “Daily Me,” to Homophily Bias, Filter Bubbles, and Echo Chamber Effects
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin
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Hurricane #Sandy Resources: New York City Evacuation Map in the Eventuality of Major Water Surges Produced by Hurricanes
As Hurricane Sandy started pummeling New Jersey shore, it is worth looking again at this map, published by The
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Hurricane Sandy Probable Landfall, Path, and Impact Cone (kmz from NOAA)
The black line represents the probable path of the “eye” of the storm, as provided by NOAA. The image below
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Knowledge Gap Hypothesis and Digital Divides – A review of the literature and impact on social media research
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University bySorin Adam Matei Knowledge
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In Search of the Ur-Wikipedia: Universality, Similarity, and Translation in the Wikipedia Inter-language Link Network
A notable paper about Wikipedia versions and interactions across linguistic boundaries Wikipedia has become one of the primary encyclopaedic in-
Read MoreSocial Media Monitoring of 2012 US Presidential Campaign: Latest News from Google Trends, Social Mention, Twazzup, Klout
The relative popularity of the contenders in the 2012 US Presidential campaign can be measured not only by traditional polling
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Social Media Monitoring and Sentiment analysis of Romney vs. Obama 2012 first presidential debate
Note: This post and the charts will be updated throughout the evening. Come back often for more recent details. Barack
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KredibleNet project awarded NSF grant, will study reputation in social media using network analysis
It’s official: The National Science Foundation hereby awards a grant of $179,594 to Purdue University for support of the project
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io9 misses the point of Eastern European 80s and 70s Sci Fi Posters
io9 makes fun of some awesome, albeit non-standard, Eastern European Sci-Fi posters from the 1970s and 1980s. Some of them,
Read MoreIndividual team member performance decreases as a function of team size
This article, which discusses the Ringelmann effect (the larger the team, the smaller the individual effort), dovetails very nicely with
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Computational Social Science, A Science of Links
What is computational social science? It is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of vast, intact social networks and “big data”
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Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon and a Purdue graduate, dies at 82. Find the place and the precise coordinates of the Apollo 11 mission landing site on Google Earth map to remember him.
Neil Armstrong died on August 25 of heart failure following surgery. A former military pilot, he landed the moon landing
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Mars Science Laboratory and Rover Curiosity Landing Sequence Animation and Coordinates (Precise Longitude – Latitude Location ) – Maps, KMZ, Videos
Mars Rover Curiosity has landed at 4.59S / 137.44 E coordinates, in Gale crater, not far from a ridge, on
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An Olympic love story at the end of a gun barrel
The Olympics bring together people from around the globe and sometimes it ends in love. That’s what happened to Katy
Read MoreMicrosoft Surface tablet may cost $599, have Wi-Fi only – Gadgetbox on NBCNews.com
Microsoft Surface tablet prices swing widely between $599 and $1000… Microsoft can’t realistically sell it over $999 and in fact
Read MoreNSA chief: Internet ‘at great risk,’ needs defense system
See on Scoop.it – Mapping current events General Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, gave an address at
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