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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: National Science Foundation

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 user pages or the answers offered to Q&A sites ruled by any discernible configurations? Do users engage in predictable posting/answering behaviors? More…

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 Smith) on Trust, Authority, and Credibility at IRISS, on the Stanford campus, in Palo Alto. My co-PIs on the NSF grant that…

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 “KredibleNet – Building a research community and proposing a research agenda for the study and modeling of reputation and authority across informal…

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 user pages or the answers offered to Q&A sites ruled by any discernible configurations? Do users engage in predictable posting/answering behaviors? More…