Com 559 Syllabus – Current Trends in Mass Communication Research – From Mass Media to Social Media
Purdue University Fall 2017 Meeting time: Tuesday – Thursday, 12 – 1:20 PM, BRNG 2275 Office hours: BRNG 2140, 2:15
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Research
Complex 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
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Digital Scholarship in Humanities and Social Sciences Course – 63200 Graduate Seminar at Purdue University Taught by Sorin Adam Matei
Description The course is a guide to the emerging field of educational and scholarly theories and practices that use networked
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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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Purdue University Brian Lamb School of Communication hosts Marc Smith, NodeXL founder, social media and network analyis scholar
Marc Smith, cyber sociologist, product developer, Connected Action Chief Scientist, and leader of the Social Media foundation will visit the
Read MoreA great explanation for how peer-review, open science, and academic journal publishing clash with each other
A very bright and concise way of explaining the economic implications of the peer-review process Open science, Freedom of Information
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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
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Online Interaction Graduate Seminar to be offered during the fall semester 2011 at Purdue University
Next fall I will teach the Online Interaction Seminar at Purdue University. The class is listed as 47566 – COM
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
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Is two-step flow theory still relevant for social media research?
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Elihu
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What can uses and gratifications theory tell us about social media?
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University bySorin Adam Matei Of
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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 /
Read MoreWhat 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 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 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 MoreIndependent and interdependent task allocation in Wikipedia editorial work
Image via Wikipedia Wikipedia articles that are controlled by a small group of editors that coordinate their work closely seem
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 MoreWikipedia becomes more organized, norms activities stricter
Wikipedia has become an increasingly organized bureacracy, with rules and norms that are more complex and performance according to studies
Read MoreWikitruth Through Wikiorder
On Wikipedia it matters who you are and how you did it, not what you did. How does large-scale social
Read MoreWikipedia in academic studies
Wikimedia maintains this extensive and valuable list of academic papers dedicated to academic research that focuses on Wikipedia (such as
Read MoreWikipedia contributions, motivations studied by UN University survey
At Wikimania I sat on a panel with Ruidiger Glott who presented a paper on the first multilingual survey of
Read MoreWikipedia scholars
Aniket Kittur is the author of several very interesting papers about inequality of contribution on Wikipedia. His website hosts a
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