The social impact of social media: creator or destroyer of social capital?
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Social
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Research
Academic research, essays, white papers on the social shaping of communication technologies
What are the most prestigious communication doctoral programs in the US?
According to this paper, programs that are most central in the hiring network (in terms of outdegrees or indegrees?), are
Read MoreEmail networks have backbones too…
Image via Wikipedia The Structure of Information Pathways in a Social Communication Network Social networks are of interest to researchers
Read MoreSocial Loafing and Expectancy-Value Theory — Pers Soc Psychol Bull
How do we predict social behavior on social media? Shepperd and Taylor propose Expectancy Theory… The paper is also interesting
Read MoreCritical mass and willingness to pay for social networks
A very interesting paper on calculating critical mass and predicting explosion of interaction on social media sites. Image via Wikipedia
Read MoreWhen do social groups reach critical mass?
Image via Wikipedia What is formula for calculating critical mass in social groups of smaller scales? The problem of collective
Read MoreWalter Alvarez: Discoverer of astreroid that killed the dinosaurs at Microsoft Faculty Summit
Walter Alvarez teaches geology at Berkley and his main contribution to the history of science is the theory that the
Read MorePreece and Shneiderman about the pattern of collboration online using Wikipedia as a testing ground
This piece, which is available online, has become an instant classic… Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most
Read MoreRaw Data Now? How about better data or ontological translators now?
John Wilbanks Image via Wikipedia At the Microsoft Faculty Summit John Wilbanks from Creative Commons foundation advocated very, very, very
Read MoreHarvard Dataverse helps researchers publish their data and papers
Image via Wikipedia The Dataverse Network is an open-source web application supported by Harvard University, which offers a free and
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Microsoft Faculty Summit 2010
I am in Seattle attending the Microsoft Faculty Summit 2010. It is an awesome gathering of leading researchers and scholars
Read MoreBrief introduction to mathematical theory of communication
An excellent and mercifuly brief introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Communication Krippendorff, Klaus. “Mathematical Theory of Communication”, In Encyclopedia
Read MoreMason: Social Network Simulator
MASON is a fast discrete-event multiagent simulation library core in Java, designed to be the foundation for large custom-purpose Java
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Idols of the forum (Idolii forului) book introduces Romanian publishing to 2d code universe
Our second 2d book, Idolii forului – Idols of the Forum, came out a week ago in my native country,
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Ubimark connects print and digital media via 2D codes and iPhone app
Cell phones may seem like a distraction when reading, but our latest project, Ubimark books, can now be paired with
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Ubimark covered by major online sites: Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus
Over the last few days my project, Ubimark, which turns print books such as Around the Word in 80 Days
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Visible Effort: A Social Entropy Methodology for Managing Computer-Mediated Collaborative Learning
Abstract A theoretically-grounded learning feedback tool suite, the Visible Effort (VE) Mediawiki extension, is proposed for optimizing online group learning
Read MoreLess is more, even when we communicate
Image via Wikipedia Lifehacker picks this little tid-bit of insight from Inc: You might think that involving a bunch of
Read MoreMemories in Nature – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
Image via Wikipedia “The conscious, brain-based memories that we humans set so much store by are not the only memories
Read MoreTop 2008-2009 Social Media Strategy Books
A list of influential books on designing successful social media strategies. Gillin – Social Media Marketing and New Influencers Safko
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Communication as social form: an autoecological perspective
Simmel – Image via Wikipedia by Sorin Adam Matei Professor, Purdue University citation: Matei, S A (2019). Communication as social
Read MoreHow to derive social networks from web forum, chat, or other time based asynchronous communication data and conversation threads
Social Network Structure Image via Wikipedia Vehovar Vasja and Ziberna Alesia, the first mentioned previously on this blog for his
Read MoreUsing Social Network to Predict the Behavior of Active Members of Online Communities
Image via Wikipedia Recipe for constructing a recommender system. In this paper we use the social networks of active members
Read MoreIt’s crantastic!
Image via Wikipedia Welcome to crantastic, a community site for R packages where you can search for, review and tag
Read MoreShort Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work – Mlawiki
Image by lucykimbell via Flickr Modern Language Association provides this guide to evaluating digital work for promotion and tenure in
Read MoreIBM Cat Brain Simulation called a hoax
Henry Markram Image via Wikipedia Ridiculous pretense building upon pipedream smoke, this is the feeling a recent fight between computer
Read MoreNanowires key to future transistors, electronics
Graph illustrating Moore’s law Image via Wikipedia Purdue researchers set foundations for next generation CPUS. Without smaller wires and transistors
Read MoreJournal of Information Technology & Politics
A notable journal in the field of computer mediated communication: JITP Manuscripts should have significant theoretical and empirical roots, preferably
Read MoreDemocracy and E-Rulemaking
Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Web-Based Technologies, Participation, and the Potential for Deliberation David Schlosberg Stephen Zavestoski Stuart W. Shulman ABSTRACT. Deliberative
Read More“edit this page”: the power of editing affordances
Editing interface on Wikipedia via Wikipedia An interesting paper on the minimalist approach to editing interfaces on Wikipedia. Networked environments,
Read MoreThe collaborative construction of “fact” on Wikipedia
Interesting paper on the social construction of facts on Wikipedia. For years Wikipedia has come to symbolize the potential of
Read MoreCommunicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces
Image via Wikipedia Three Very interesting papers by an interesting team at University of Washington that has done great work
Read More“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” How can you find a page number for a direct citation if you do not have the print version of the book?
A grad student of mine and I were working on a paper when we realized that we have THAT citation
Read MoreDensity, diversity, openness and speed: is management development aligned? : Table of Contents
Interesting Journal of Management Development The increasing speed, openness, density and diversity of business raise new challenges related to five
Read MoreCan certain languages make you sad?
Image via Wikipedia Face is the mirror of the soul. Or so E A Poe thought, who believed that you
Read MoreFirst 5,000 Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud – Open Blog – NYTimes.com
Image via Wikipedia The One New York Times initiative aims to bring the power of quasi open source development to
Read MoreGoogle’s New Assessment Tool | Teaching Matters
Image by Shadi Hijazi via Flickr Google comes closer to proposing a new, improved, exciting charting tool… Google’s next big
Read MoreMonkeynomics: lower primates can feel the pinch of the invisible hand
Image via Wikipedia NPR Monkey Economics Report Are monkeys just as compelled to value higher rare skills as humans are?
Read MoreA definition for emergence
Image by VRider goes Web3D via Flickr Tim Burke, a professor at Swarthmore, defines emergence in these terms… (The article
Read MoreTechnology Review: Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom?
The 80/20 rule strikes again and with a vengeance…. When searching online for a new gadget to buy or a
Read MoreAn Intro And Then Some
Ahoy internet, I’d like to quickly introduce myself and explain my purpose here. I’m Ryan Scott and I’m a Purdue
Read MoreEntropy and Gini: is entropy different from inequality?
ScienceDirect – European Economic Review : Generalized entropy and the measurement of distributional change. Abstract: “The analogy between information theory
Read MoreMEJ Newman’s papers at xarchiv
MEJ Newman, one of the most prolific and important researchers in the field of complex networks, has published widely in
Read MoreFinding Community Structure in Mega-scale Social Networks
Rhia improves upon work done by http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408187 Community analysis algorithm proposed by Clauset, Newman, and Moore (CNM algorithm) finds community
Read MoreWhere do power laws come from
Newman looks at the meaning of power law distributions… When the probability of measuring a particular value of some quantity
Read MoreWow: An Algorithm for calculating community structure
MEJ Newman seems to have not only cracked the tough nut of detecting community structure in large networks but has
Read MoreMaps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure
Fascinating paper on revealing community structure in networks… Similar to Newman’s work… To comprehend the multipartite organization of large-scale biological
Read MoreFinding community structure in networks using the eigenvectors of matrices
Is this a way of getting at what has become the holly grail of community research, namely detecting structure in
Read MoreOffdiagonal complexity: measuring network complexity
What is the best way to measure network complexity? Complexity can be defined as presence of a diversity of cliques
Read MoreCAIDA research…
The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis is dedicated to studying the network structure of the Internet and how it
Read MoreCAIDA : tools
Tools, software and a taxonomy of available research and visualization tools made available by The Cooperative Association for Internet Data
Read MoreInfoVis CyberInfrastructure- Software
A great tool resource repository for data visualization from our colleagues at Indiana University… This page provides pointers to commonly
Read MoreHow small are building blocks of complex networks
Fascinating paper on characterizing complex networks… The conclusion is that really complex networks can be described starting from small building
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