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Social Media Research, Live on the Web
(May 6, 2011) Social media presents a new chance to answer old questions from the social sciences. Eric Gilbert shares his projects as an academic to collect data on interactions in social media. They range from exploring the theory of tie strength in Facebook and Twitter to showing people an abstract view of one's current email load.
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Related topics : living social media / research social media
Inventing an open-source mobile social media future at Stanford
MobiSocial is about imagining and creating an open-source mobile social media future. One app, Mr. Privacy, envisions a social network running on email, rather than proprietary servers where user privacy is not guaranteed. Other ideas involve sharing between cell phones and televisions using near-field communication.
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Related topics : open source social media / social network open source / social media future
The Spontaneous Emergence of Collective Behavior
From the mediaX Seminar, Science Storytelling & the Power of Participation; Damon Centola discusses the impact of network “topology” – the graph-theoretic structure of social ties in a network – and “homophily” – the similarity or differences between connected members of a population – on behavior change in large online populations. His research results show how these factors can directly alter behaviors at both the individual and collective...
Related topics : structure of online social network
New Social Media Not So New
Two Stanford scholars of the 17th and 18th centuries say the earlier era prefigured the "information overload," with its own equivalents of Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Social networks have been key to almost all revolutions -- from 1789 to the Arab Spring.
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Related topics : social media news / social media networking articles
I Learn Therefore I Buy: An Intersection of Learning and Business with Rich Media
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Sourabh Kothari, Senior Manager Rich Media Marketing at Cisco Systems looks at our relationships with people, brands and ideas and how rich media influences our behavior.
Related topics : rich media marketing
New Media and Political Communication
May 14, 2009 This panel presents a range of perspectives on the social and symbolic action afforded by new media in the realm of politics and international relations.
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Related topics : social media internal communications
Pearson to Person: Social Networking in the Enterprise
(November 30, 2011) Karen Gettman from Pearson Education discusses the ways in which social networks within corporations (such as NEO) can aid productivity and supplement emails.
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Related topics : social enterprise network
Perspectives on Social Phenomena in Online Networks
(February 16, 2011) Jon Kleinberg focuses his discussion on issues that come up when thinking about social phenomenon on the web and some how it interacts with some of the classical theories from the social sciences.
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Related topics : schools and online social networking
Popping the Filter Bubble
The rise of filter bubbles and un-civil discourse on social media demands a stronger ethos of responsibility on the part of media platforms and all consumers of information, says Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media.
Related topics : social media response
A Roadmap for Medical Devices: From Innovative Ideas to the U.S. Market
Dr. Malvina Eydelman (FDA) discusses U.S. regulation of medical devices.
Related topics : medical marketing ideas
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