November 2011
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European University Institute - Ph.D. Grants...
The European University Institute is offering 160 Grants for a Ph.D. for the Academic Year 2012-13 in the fields of Economics, History & Civilization, Law and Political & Social Sciences.
Deadline for all applications is 31 January 2012.
For more information, visit http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/News/2011/10-28-160PhDgrants2012-2013.aspx
October 2011
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Registrations open for CCI Symposium in Sydney
Event details
Date: Wednesday, 16 November and Thursday, 17 November 2011
Time: 9.30am - 5.00pm (Wednesday) and 9.00am - 6.00pm (Thursday)
Venue: UNSW Sydney - CBD Campus (Wednesday) and Kensington Campus (Thursday)
For more information and to register, visit the CCI website.
September 2011
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Mapping Online Publics on Twitter
Keynote from Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis (DIATA11) 14 -15 September 2011, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Registrations now open for eResearch Australasia...
eResearch Australasia is a conference that brings together practitioners and researchers for a stimulating week to share ideas and exemplars on new information centric research capabilities. eResearch is focused on how information and communications technologies help researchers to collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, and re-use information. 2011 is the fifth year for this...
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Open Government Data Conference - Brisbane 23...
On 23 September 2011, Creative Commons Australia is holding the Open Government Data Conference and Data Camp at QUT in Brisbane. This seminar is designed to showcase the leaders in this area from Australia and internationally. They will explain the background, history and rationale for Open Government Data both at a conceptual and practical level and highlight real life examples which can make it...
April 2011
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Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group,... →
An information science research group developing software and methods to exploit Internet-based sources for social sciences research. We research scientometrics, link analysis, cybermetrics, webometrics, web science and sentiment analysis.
February 2011
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What The Trend. Find out why terms are trending on... →
November 2010
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retroV →
The virality of information project at the University of Washington:
The retroV team is an interdisciplinary research group investigating the dynamics of information and content distribution in networks. We examine online ecologies of information in social media networks. We are interested in understanding power relationships among different actors and their influence on dynamics of information...
Truthy: spread of memes →
from Indiana University Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research [via Visual Complexity]
October 2010
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The Politics of Systems » one network and four... →
The Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) is an important venue if you’re interested in, like the name indicates, Internet research. But it is also a good primary source if one wants to inquire into how and why people study the Internet, which aspects of it, etc. Conveniently for empirical researcher that I am, the AOIR has an archive of its mailing-list, which has about 22K mails posted by...
September 2010
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The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only... →
Data on @reply and RT patterns on Twitter.
Structural Differences in Hashtag Communities:... →
August 2010
10 posts
Visualizing How a Link Spreads Through the... →
Mapping (archictectural) Controversies →
Some interesting time-based visualisations of the issues and actors involved in various controversies…
MACOSPOL →
MACOSPOL is a joint research enterprise that gathers scholars in science, technology and society across Europe. Its goal is to devise a collaborative platform to help students, professionals and citizens in mapping out scientific and technical controversies.
Ideaedi.it - Exploring controversies →
Lots of excellent advice and tools for mapping and representing controversies…
SIMILE Widgets | Timeplot →
Widget for making interactive timeseries graphs from CSVs. Lots of Javascript, though.
Social Media and the (UK) Election →
Report on, er, social media and the UK General Election.
HP Blogs - What makes a tweet influential? New HP... →
HP Labs paper suggesting new metrics for influence, popularity, and passivity on Twitter.
Invisible, Hidden, Parallel Cities: Twitter... →
Overlaying geocoded Twitter (and Flickr) data onto local maps
July 2010
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Graph visualization on the web with Gephi and... →
The project takes another big step forward and bring dynamic graph exploration on the web in one click from Gephi with the Seadragon Web Export plugin.
Mapping Controversies: Resources →
goodies…
Academic Publications - Leximancer Wiki →
“AutoMap is a text mining tool that enables the extraction of network data from...”
– AutoMap: Project | CASOS
April 2010
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This is What a Tweet Looks Like →
Nice - ReadWriteWeb dissects the underlying data structure of a tweet.
TweetCatcha v 1.0 →
Visualisation of how stories in the New York Times are disseminated on Twitter over time. Very, very pretty. (Give it some time to load.)
Katz-Lazarsfeld, two step flow, l’influence et le... →
(in French) some discussion of the two-step flow and the (social) web from linkfluence
March 2010
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The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size... →
Some interesting number crunching of Twitter following patterns by ReadWriteWeb - and suggestions for how to measure Twitter influence.
The Politics of Systems » netvizz – facebook to... →
Plugin for network mapping visualisation software Gephi to visualise your social network on Facebook.
Twitter Trends →
Elaborate live Twitter trends. Nice design!
ANN Conference :Annenberg Networks Network →
Lots to read and think about here…seems like all the papers and videos are online.
International Seminar On Network Theory: Network Multidimensionality In The Digital Age
Stuff on social theory-social networks nexus, semantic web, keynote by Bruno Latour, and semantic web. Lots of stuff.
Global opinions, visualized: The State... →
The US State Department is starting to to topic mapping…
Nielsen study of social media use in Australia →
23% read Twitter, 59% have Facebook profiles.
Social Media Metrics: Why Am I Counting Tweets... →
Quick overview of some tweet-tracking startups…
ContextMiner →
another free web crawling research tool
ICTA - Internet Community Text Analyzer →
[Public Comment Analysis Toolkit] Home Page →
VMS Web →
Website for Viktor Mayer-Schönberger - author of delete, which argues for an expiration date on personal information shared online.
Berkman Center’s Study of the Arab Blogsphere: Map... →
Critique of the Berkman study that mapped the Arab blogosphere. Very interesting discussion re mapping cultures from the ‘outside’; the politics of labelling, etc etc. “This whole labeling issue is first very simplistic and second it does not really help anyone to understand the Arab blogsphere as it is self-representing itself.”
Linked to from MediaShift where David...
Developer Preview: upcoming geo features (a.k.a "A... →
Web Ecology Project →
The Web Ecology Project is an interdisciplinary research group based in Boston, Massachusetts focusing on using large scale data mining to analyze the system-wide flows of culture and community online. In addition to the task of understanding culture on the web through quantitative research and rigorous experimentation, we are attempting to build a science around community management and social...
"The rise of the 'Viewertariat'": Twitter, telly... →
Press release:
A new way to track audience responses to live television programmes as they are broadcast provides a unique insight into individuals’ political understandings and motivations, according to research published today. In their study, Nick Anstead from the University of East Anglia and Ben O’Loughlin of Royal Holloway, University of London, argue that the boundaries between...
February 2010
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Economist special report on social networking →
Good overview of current social media stats in a report from The Economist.
501 Australian Journalists and news media people... →
For future reference: a long (but not necessarily comprehensive) list of the Twitter accounts of Australian journalists, journalism academics, and related hangers-on.
OpenCalais - semantic web thingy →
“Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.”
Apps include Slate’s news dots, which represents each day’s news across a large number of publications as a social network.
Netzwerk-Barometer Nordrhein-Westfalen | Homo... →
Interesting little project that tracks the number of ‘fans’/’friends’ which the various party leaders in the upcoming state election in Northrhine-Westfalia have on a number of major social networks. (In German.)