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Nov 07

Upcoming Conferences: Detroit, Boston, New Haven

This Friday, I’ll be in Detroit, MI speaking at the Wayne State University Virtual Citizenship Symposium. I’m really honored to be part of this symposium; my fellow speakers are Russell Dalton, Wendy Chun and Vernor Vinge. I’ll be talking about collective action and participation in social networks, and I’m trying to figure out how to work some of this new Beacon stuff into my talk. If you’re interested in attending, the symposium is free, and you can find all the necessary information at the symposium’s website.

Via the Complexity and Social Networks Blog, news of a December 7 Conference on Computational Social Science. Speakers include Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Nosh Contractor, Lada Adamic and a host of other luminaries. This conference is in Cambridge, MA, and is free to attend. The next day, Yale hosts the Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. The student fee for this great conference has been dropped to $45, and I highly recommend making the effort to attend. If I wasn’t previously scheduled for travel on these days, I’d be trying to figure out a way to attend both. If you’re in the NY/Boston corridor, this could make for a very nerdy and fun road/train trip.

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Oct 07

On Your Radar: Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace

Michael Zimmer reports on the Yale Information Society Project symposium Reputation Economies in Cyberspace, to be held December 8, 2007 at Yale Law School. Michael helped put this symposium together, and the speaker list is absolutely top notch – you’ll hear from Michael Bauwens, Jonathan Zittrain, Allesandro Acquisti, Bill McGeveran, John Clippenger and many more.

If you’re in any way interested in digital identity and reputation, this is a wonderful event to attend. To find out more, visit the symposium website where you can sign up to attend.

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Oct 07

Reactions to ASIST Panel, Save the Date

First off, thank you to danah, Raquel and Alla for trekking to Milwaukee to take part in our ASIST panel entitled “Research Directions in Social Network Webites.” I’ve received great feedback about our panel – Jeff Pomerantz shares his thougts here. (The check is in the mail, Jeff). A couple people contacted me to ask if the panel was being recorded (it wasn’t), but I did find a liveblog of the panel by Ken Varnum – thank you Ken! All in all, it was a great time and thank you again to the panelists.

In other news, mark your calendar for April 10-11 2008, as ASIST will be putting on a Social Software Summit. This Summit will run in conjunction with the IA Summit in Miami, FL – so if you’re planning on attending the IA Summit, don’t miss this. All of the details are tentative at this point – but hopefully soon we’ll have confirmed dates, a website, and a call for participation.

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Oct 07

Upcoming Panel: Research Directions in Social Network Websites

If you’re planning on attending ASIST ’07 next week in Milwaukee, you might want to stop by a panel I’m putting together, entitled Research Directions in Social Network Websites. danah boyd, Raquel Recuero, Alla Zollers and I will be talking about our research, exploring the various approaches we’ve taken to studying social network sites. Here’s the abstract:

Social networking websites have played a key factor in the evolution of the “social web.” Hundreds of millions of individuals from all age-ranges have flocked to sites such as MySpace (http://myspace.com), Facebook (http://facebook.com) and Orkut (http://orkut.com) to create an online representation of identity, to manage their social lives, and to establish deep social relationships with other users of the sites. To this extent, the promise of Web 2.0 is embodied in social networking websites. Social networks both implicitly and explicitly connect individuals, enabling the representation of a rich social identity embodied in a virtual presence.

In this panel, an exciting young group of researchers will present results of their ongoing work in the analysis of social networking websites. This panel will present a number of different research methods, as well as international perspectives on the analysis of social networks. danah boyd will present some of the key challenges she has faced in her multi-year, ongoing ethnographic analysis of social networking websites. Raquel Recuero will share results of her mixed-methods international work on Fotolog, a popular photo-based social networking site. Scott Golder and Fred Stutzman will present large-network analysis of social behavior in Facebook, the leading college-based social network. Finally, Alla Zollers will present a quantitative and content-analysis of activism in social networking sites, analyzing the information architecture of the sites and the role it plays in activism.

The research and the varying methods presented in this panel will present viewers with an exciting look at the many ways social network websites can be analyzed. These sites stand at the forefront of the social web, presenting myriad opportunities to future researchers.

Unfortunately, Scott Golder will not able to attend. The panel will be on Monday at 3:30 PM.

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Sep 07

SCS 2007, Congrats to techPresident

Today marks the second day of the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium – I’m here with Alice, Alla, Cliff, danah and a bunch of other fascinating academics and practitioners…many thanks to Liz Lawley for bringing us together. In the sessions, we’ve been talking about identity, presence, youth culture, deviance and a host of other topics. David Weinberger has been documenting – and I believe you can follow along with a live webcast on the SCS 2007 site. Justin.tv was also here, and it was more than a little surreal to be able to watch the room I was in on his shoulder-cam.

In other news, I wanted to pass along special congratulations to the editors and writers of techPresident. Yesterday, it was announced that techPresident was the winner of the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. A special note of congrats goes to Josh Levy and Micah Sifry, who have worked together to create the go-to source for tech coverage of the 2008 campaign. I’m proud to be associated with them. Kudos!

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Jul 07

OII SDP draws to a close

After a remarkably quick two weeks, the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program is drawing to a close. It has been a great two weeks here at Harvard, and I know we will all look back very fondly on the experience. While the life of the graduate student has its standard drawbacks, it is a great joy to be able to explore, research and learn as a career – something I won’t take for granted. It’s a very bittersweet moment to say goodbye, but it will be fascinating to watch the cohort progress as time passes. Thank you to everyone at OII and Berkman, especially Amar and Suzanne, for making it a wonderful experience.

In other news, Paul DiPerna informed me that the Blau Exchange website has relaunched. As part of the relaunch, Paul has posted a roundtable discussion on Ph.D. studies, research and online politics featuring Miia Akkinen, Paul K. Lawton, Sarita Yardi and myself. Thanks to Paul for putting this together, and I look forward to Blau’s new content.

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Jul 07

At the Oxford Internet Institute

Last Sunday, I traveled to Boston to attend the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program. This year, the program is being held at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. To say it’s a excellent experience is an understatement – a sentiment I think every attendee echoes. I’m most impressed by my colleagues, a collection of brilliant researchers from all over the world. We’re engaging with new and challenging ideas all day, and talking across culture and distance, which makes this a tremendously valuable experience. (To my advisers, thank you!)

If you’re interested in following along with the program, the folk at Berkman have set up an aggregator of student/faculty blogs, which you can find here. A number of students are doing an amazing job of liveblogging, and there are also pictures and other goodies there. I must say that I departed for Boston with hopes that the SDP would inspire and challenge me as I progress towards a dissertation, and it has done that exactly. I hope to write and reflect a little more as the program progresses, though I think its more likely that dispatches will sort of slow down for the next two weeks.

Now, on a random tangent, somebody spammed my blog with all of the spoilers of the new Harry Potter book today. I haven’t tracked them down to see if they were actually true, but there’s a special place in hell for that spammer. That’s just wrong.

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