Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks

Authors: Jeffrey Heer, danah boyd

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the dramatic popularity of online social networking services, in which millions of members publicly articulate mutual "friendship" relations. Guided by ethnographic research of these online communities, we have designed and implemented a visualization system for playful end-user exploration and navigation of large-scale online social networks. Our design builds upon familiar node-link network layouts to contribute...

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From: Maneesh Agrawala

Related topics : online social network services

How Social Networks Work & Why That Matters for Social Media Part 2

Video of Voice-Over PowerPoint presentation with simple explanation of network and systems properties. Part 2 of 3. Dr. Pamela Rutledge

Media Psychology Research Center http://www.mprcenter.org

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From: Pamela Rutledge

Related topics : social work network / why social media matters

How Social Networks Work & Why That Matters for Social Media Part 1

Video of Voice-Over PowerPoint presentation with simple explanation of network and systems properties. Part 1 of 3.

Dr. Pamela Rutledge

Media Psychology Research Center http://www.mprcenter.org

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From: Pamela Rutledge

Related topics : social work network / why social media matters

DOGALIZE the first social network for dogs owners by BUSINESS COMPETENCE

Dogalize is the Best Social Network dedicated to our 4-legged friends!

Dogalize is the App for dogs' owners that allows you to interact with all social networks sharing experiences and multimedia content such as post, photos and videos about your dog. Thanks to the geolocation system you can pinpoint the location of our 4-legged friends as well as local dog-friendly places as playgrounds, restaurants, hotels and pets stores.

With Dogalize you can communicate with friends, create groups, chat,...

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From: Business Competence

Related topics : social business network

Exploring large social networks with matrix-based representations

As people conduct even more of their life electronically, vast new datasets are available for social scientists to analyze. Understanding the structure and evolution of popular online communities such as FaceBook, Flickr or Wikipedia creates new challenges for analysis tools. Information visualization can be a powerful approach to help social scientists both explore these social networks and present their findings to others. While most of the current systems propose node-link...

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From: Microsoft Research

Related topics : structure and evolution of online social networks / social network visualization tools / analysis social networks