What should a strategist know? A competency-based education program for strategic thinkers and doers
In my role as an Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Purdue University, I partnered with two colleagues
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Research
Academic research, essays, white papers on the social shaping of communication technologies
Russia’s practical nuclear options make no sense (and vice-versa)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened Ukraine and its supporters with a nuclear attack that will settle the war
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EUNOMIA: TRUST BEFORE YOU LIKE SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES
WHAT IS, HOW and WHY you should join EUNOMIA? Two years ago, the European Union Horizon 2020 program awarded EUNOMIA,
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Latent Crusaders: Narrative Strategies of Survival in Early Modern Danubian Principalities, 1550-1750
NOTE: In some ways, I am a historian born again as a social scientist. A number of years ago in
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Communication Technologies & Trade-offs: A particular case of marginal utility
This article is a companion material to the courses I teach at Purdue University as a University core class. The
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The generative dilemma of the Internet
This is an introduction to a set of core concepts related to Internet communication for the Course COM 251 Information,
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Sorin Adam Matei leads Purdue – Google partnership for enhancing teaching and research in “data storytelling”
Purdue’s Brian Lamb School of Communication is joining the Google News Lab University to better prepare students for 21st century careers
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I, you, we: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton word fight on Facebook emphasize the importance of assuming personal responsibility
The rhetorical struggle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is not only about issues, actions and change, but also about
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Toward deciphering the social media genome: big data and computational social science may explain social embriology
Nothing seems more random to the naked eye than the babble of online exchanges. Are the posting patterns on Wikipedia
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Designing Statistical Privacy in Big Data
The more data we generate about a target population, the harder to protect the privacy of the individuals surveyed. Sensitive
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The value of theoretical knowledge or the usefulness of useless knowledge
“It’s theoretical” or “it’s soooo theoretical” or “this is just theory”… Theory and knowledge sought for their own sake are often
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Movies Manipulate Your Brain with Neuroscientific Strategies to Keep you Watching (via Wired)
Great art relies on the technique of the missing element, which your mind completes or puts into motion. The knife
Read MoreThe limits of big data analysis
Big data is seen by many as a panacea, while many
Read MoreStructural hole definition of social capital via network closure by Ronald Burt
Ronald Burt, a pioneer in the field of network analysis and inventor of the “structural hole” concept, published in 2005
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Practice Capital Concept Applied through Social Network Analysis to the C-Span Video Archive
A new concept, practice capital, which extends the concept of social capital to collaborative projects is proposed in my chapter
Read MoreFacebook data used to identify cities that attract migrants in a systematic way
Systematic migration is defined in the study as “coordinated” migration in these terms: We formally define a coordinated migration as
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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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”
Read MoreNarrative Theory: A reading list
Our colleague, H. Porter Abbott, at UCSB teaches a great course on Narrative theory, which includes this awesome reading list…
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A modest proposal for solving global warming: nuclear war
We finally have a solution for global warming. A discussion on the board The Straight Dope about the likely effect
Read MoreSecurity company Imperva disects Anonymous hack attack on Vatican in Case Study to Be Presented at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on March 1st (paper, pdf, YouTube video)
In a an extremely detailed report to be delivered to the computer security conference, Imperva, an IT security consulting company
Read MoreComplex social systems, New directions of research
Filicudi e Lipari (Photo credit: CyboRoZ) Lipari School on Computational Complex Systems announces its 2012 annual session. Novel data mining
Read MoreSocial Media Monitoring Predicts Close Romney – Santorum Race in Iowa Caucus
Mashable hints that Twitter might have caught a whiff of Santorum’s possible dash in the last straight line before the finish
Read MoreEx Yale professor William Deresiewicz rejects bureaucratic education and thinking in American Scholar Essay “Solitude and Leadership”
Current college students are called “digital natives.” They are heralded as a new type of intellectual foragers, who can multitask
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A KML Historic and Literary Map of Pearl Harbor on the Morning of December 7, 1941 (7:55 am) According to Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy
Digital Humanities Showcase: Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy mapped Walter Lord’s meticulously documented book “Day of Infamy” recounts the trivia
Read MoreWhat is NodeXL and how can it be used. A review of the NodeXL book by Hansen, Shneiderman, Smith
INTL. JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, 27(4), 405–408, 2011 http://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2011.544971 Book Review Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, and Marc A. Smith. Analyzing
Read MoreIs open, non anonymous peer review better at producing accurate reviewes?
What if we allowed the authors and the reviewers of academic papers to interact with each other and, horribile dictu,
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Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia
This is the title of the opening theoretical chapter of Francesca Comunello’s edited book “Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for
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The Visible Past / Open Context Loosely Coupled Model for Digital Humanities Ubiquitous Collaboration and Publishing: Collaborating Across Print, Mobile, and Online Media
Authors: Sorin Adam Matei, Eric Kansa, Nicholas Rauh. Abstract: The paper presents a platform for supporting academic collaboration and publishing
Read MoreNo time travel for you. Hong Kong Scientists confirm that time travel is impossible
Spotted by my wife, thus notable. A team of scientists says it’s officially time to leave the idea of time
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Virtual Sociability: From Community to Communitas book sees virtual space as permanent, conflict ridden initiation ritual (free download, Smashwords, Kindle, Amazon,PDF, .mobi, ebook)
To what degree can the human exchanges we observe online be called “sociability”? In other words, do these exchanges amount
Read MoreSpringfield, Massachusetts (MA) tornado gets Fujita rating EF-3, should be no surprise, state has history of violent tornadoes (Video, Pictures, Map, KMZ)
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The unexpected tornadoes that landed in Springfield, Massachusetts on
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Dramatic changes in American religious practices
The latest Pew Poll on religious life in America announces that religious affiliation in America has become a choice,
Read MoreGoldilocks planets most likely to support human-like life forms
Of the many billions of stars that surround us, only some are orbited by planets. Of those that have planets,
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An academic grant worth the cost of an aircraft carrier?
What you say if you got a $1.5 BILLION grant? Samuel Ting (Nobel Prize laureate, 1974, MIT professor) got precisely
Read MoreA new “semantic data” service: “Document Discovery”?
The New York Times combines a number of data sieving and semantic sorting services into a new type of application
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What make crowds wise? Strong leaders
A part, and an important one, of the “wise crowds” mystery seems to have been solved. All “smart mobs” need
Read MoreDigital history and the future of the e-book
Cover via Amazon The Center for New Media and History at George Mason University announced last month the launch of
Read MoreAbout the VOSON Project | Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON)
An ambitious Social Netwok Analysis site… The World Wide Web (WWW) has changed how humans interact; for some scholars, we
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Deciphering the social media genome: Toward an ecology of social roles in online collaborative spaces via Visible Symbiosis
Nothing seems more random to the naked eye than the babble of online exchanges. Are the posting patterns on Wikipedia
Read MoreState of the art research on social networks and social media (Wikipedia)
Academic researchers have deployed in the last decade several innovative approaches to studying social networking and via graph and complexity
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Does agenda setting theory still apply to social media?
Does the old fashioned newsroom still matter? Image via Wikipedia This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social /
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