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This blog is about different social media sites and tools that can help individual users to manage and control the content of their ever-changing and ever-growing social media and networking accounts. The blog also hosts a series of reviews of different social media and networking sites for scholars.
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- April 11, 2011
- 04:00 AM
- 674 views
Measuring Influence on Twitter: Top 10 Influencers on #cndpoli, #elxn41 #cbcns
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
During this election campaign, a lot has been written about the influence of social media in general and the influence of twitter in particular. But who exactly are the people that actually influence and control the twitter conversations about Canada’s upcoming election? And how can we measure influence on twitter? For the purpose of our [...]... Read more »
Bernardo A. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero, & Fang Wu. (2009) Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope. First Monday, 14(1-5). arXiv: 0812.1045v1
Gruzd, A., Wellman, B., and Takhteyev, Y. (2011) Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community. American Behavioral Scientist, Special issue on Imagined Communities. info:/
- November 24, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 589 views
YouTube EDU: There is more to YouTube than Justin Bieber’s Video
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
On October 28th 2010, YouTube subscribers base reached 1 billion, helping to make it the third most popular website in the world. YouTube is a video-sharing website that allows user to upload, share and view videos online. On the main YouTube site, one can find videos on a wide variety of subjects matters from music [...]... Read more »
Colman, D. (2009) Introducing YouTube EDU. Blog post. info:/
- June 28, 2011
- 11:00 AM
- 577 views
You are Hired! Be your own Publisher & Editor-in-Chief:Brave New World of Social Publishing #Paper.li #paperli
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
Social media has altered many aspects of our lives including how we keep in touch with our friends and family. Now social media is also changing the way we find, access and share news. According to a recent study, more than two thirds of Canadians who use social networking sites value them as a way [...]... Read more »
Canadian Media Research Consortium. (2011) Social networks transforming how Canadians get the news. Report. info:/
- July 13, 2011
- 09:46 AM
- 553 views
Question: Smartphones Social Media Workplace = ?
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
Human resource managers and bosses everywhere in North America should take note. Productivity at work might take a hit later this summer. HTC, the Taiwanese-based mobile phone juggernaut, recently announced the imminent release (July 17th) of a new smartphone dubbed by many as the “Facebook Phone”. It is the first smartphone release in North America [...]... Read more »
Smith, A. (2001) Smartphone Adoption and Usage. Pew Research Center. info:/
- August 20, 2010
- 10:00 AM
- 483 views
Exploring Information Interaction ‘Context’ with Tefko Saracevic at #IIIX2010
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
I am writing from the ‘Information Interaction in Context Symposium‘ in New Brunswick (the one in New Jersey, not the one in Canada), the home of Rutgers University. Usually I would wait until a conference is over and the dust is settled before blogging about an event, but in this case I’ll make an exception. Specifically, I would like to share some of the highlights from the keynote speaker while it’s still fresh in my mind.... Read more »
Saracevic, T. (2010) The Notion of Context in "Information Interaction in Context.". Inivited keynote at the conference Information Interaction in Context. info:/
- January 9, 2011
- 02:58 PM
- 483 views
“Is Happiness Contagious Online” Paper presented at #HICSS
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
This week, I traveled to Hawaii to present a paper entitled “Is Happiness Contagious Online? A Case of Twitter and the 2010 Winter Olympics” (co-authored with Sophie Dorion and Philip Mai) at the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). HICSS is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences in the world. [...]... Read more »
Gruzd, A., Doiron, S., Mai, P. (2011) Is Happiness Contagious Online? A Case of Twitter and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, Kauai, HI, USA. info:/
- January 19, 2011
- 12:53 PM
- 483 views
Ringing in the New Year with Info Science Conferences: What social media do you use? #ALISE #HICSS
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
Early January was a busy time for information science scholars, with two major conferences held in the United States. Both the Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) Conference, and the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) were held from January 4-7 this year. Researchers from the Social Media Lab attended each to [...]... Read more »
Gruzd, A. . (2011) How Online Social Media and Networks Are Changing Scholarly Practice. Poster presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference. info:/
- September 1, 2010
- 10:00 AM
- 479 views
Blogging with CONTEXT: A recommender system for bloggers
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
As mentioned in the previous post, last week I was attending the Information Interaction in Context Symposium held in New Brunswick, USA.
At the poster session, I and my student Justin Wong (left in the photo) from the University of Toronto, presented our ongoing work on the development and evaluation of a context-aware information retrieval system for blog authors called CONTEXT.... Read more »
Gruzd, A. and Wong, J. (2010) Blogging with CONTEXT: a context-aware information retrieval system for bloggers. In Proceeding of the Third Symposium on information interaction in Context, 289-292. info:/10.1145/1840784.1840827
- April 3, 2011
- 07:01 PM
- 440 views
“The Vinegar That Brightens the Vegetables”: Humour in Canadian Politics @rickmercer #cndpoli #elxn41
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
When it comes to tweeting about the upcoming election, Canadians are showing their famous sense of humour. Based on a sample of over 14,000 messages posted on twitter with the hashtag #CNDPOLI (collected between March 26 – April 3), we found that of the tweets that did express sentiment (6,860~49% ), about 65% expressed positive [...]... Read more »
Diakopoulos N.A. and Shamma D.A. (2010) Characterizing Debate Performance via Aggregated Twitter Sentiment. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1195-1198. info:/10.1145/1753326.1753504
- February 14, 2010
- 10:00 AM
- 422 views
Students’ writing procrastination – not anymore!
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
Even under the best of circumstances, the process of writing can be challenging for both professional and novice writers alike. For novice writers such as university students, the difficulties associated with writing can be further exacerbated when it is combined with their tendency to procrastinate and delay starting a paper till the night before it is due. Unfortunately, it seems that regardless of what an instructor may say or do, many students still inevitably get caught in an endless loop of continuous research and debilitating procrastination, to the point of total paralysis. So how can we, as educators, help our students (and ourselves) break out of this loop and start working on their research papers earlier and more consistently?... Read more »
Twidale, M.B., Gruzd, A.A. . (2008) Writing in the Library: exploring tighter integration of digital library use with the writing process. Information Processing , 44(2), 558-580. info:/10.1016/j.ipm.2007.05.010
- April 10, 2010
- 07:33 PM
- 405 views
E-readers in Academia?
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
Most early e-readers are designed as dedicated device for personal reading. However, due to their high cost, limited set of functionalities, poor quality screen and short battery life, most early e-readers were deemed to be ill suited for academia (Gorissen, 2009). As a result of these deficiencies with early e-readers, most universities have never seriously considered replacing printed books with e-books. ... Read more »
Gorissen, C. (2009) Towards an educational model of eReaders in education. Report. Open Universiteit Nederland. info:/
- April 26, 2011
- 10:57 AM
- 370 views
Is Facebook a waste of time for political parties? #cdnpoli #elxn41
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
One of the questions during this ‘social media’ election is, can Facebook, a social networking site that was developed as a venue for friends and family to stay in touch and strengthen personal connections, also be used as an effective platform to engage in political discussion? Most of the political parties and candidates running for [...]... Read more »
Lewis, K., Kaufman, J., Gonzalez, M., Wimmer, A., & Christakis, N. (2008) Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com. Social Networks, 30(4), 330-342. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2008.07.002
McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Cook, J. (2001) Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks. Annual Review of Sociology, 27(1), 415-444. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.415
- June 1, 2011
- 09:05 AM
- 347 views
Social Networking and Classrooms: What’s there for us?
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
Last August, a soon-to-be student of mine posted a message on Twitter, a popular micro-blogging platform, asking her online followers for information about @dalprof, from whom she was about to take a class. As it happens @dalprof is my username on Twitter, and because the student used it in her post, Twitter automatically alerted me [...]... Read more »
Moran, M., Seaman, J., . (2010) Teaching, Learning and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media. Report, Pearson Learning Solutions. info:/
- May 23, 2011
- 05:46 PM
- 342 views
To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question #stratfest #broadway
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
What does the word live or classical theatre bring to mind? Possibly something simple like a stage and curtains, a dark auditorium, an over-the-top Broadway musical or maybe even Shakespeare, and most likely something from another era. Few today would associate classical theatres with something as modern and now as online social media sites (OSM) [...]... Read more »
Cimolino, A. (2010) Who’s afraid of the brave new world? What does the digital revolution mean for the future of classical theatre?. Unpublished paper. info:/
- September 22, 2011
- 09:00 AM
- 312 views
Using Tweets to Predict Box Office Success #stratfest #broadway
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
Does the number of tweets a theatrical production receives correlate with its success, and can the tweets be used to predict a production’s popularity? In May I began a study examining the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s use of Twitter. Over the past several months I have been using Netlytic, a web-based system being developed here at [...]... Read more »
The Really Useful Group. (2011) Andrew on the Stratford Festival production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Blog post. info:/
- April 18, 2011
- 03:03 PM
- 311 views
Imposters among the believers… fakers and spammers “following” party leaders #elxn41 #cdnpoli
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
In the race to spread their political messages and win over voters during this year’s election, all of the leaders and their parties are making a mad dash to see who can gain the most number of followers, “Likes”, retweets, and comments, etc. on social media. For many in the mainstream media, these absolute numbers [...]... Read more »
Chu, Z., Gianvecchio, S., Wang, H. and Jajodia, S. (2010) Who is tweeting on Twitter: human, bot, or cyborg?. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 21-30. info:/10.1145/1920261.1920265
- August 30, 2011
- 09:12 AM
- 281 views
New papers: “Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community” and “Geography of Twitter Networks”
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
As part of our ongoing research on how Twitter is being used by scholars and the general public for networking and information dissemination, I am happy to announce the publication of two new papers which I co-authored with my collaborators at the University of Toronto, Dr. Barry Wellman and Dr. Yuri Takhteyev. Below are the [...]... Read more »
Gruzd, A., Wellman, B., & Takhteyev, Y. (2011) Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community. American Behavioral Scientist, 55(10), 1294-1318. DOI: 10.1177/0002764211409378
Takhteyev, Y., Gruzd, A., & Wellman, B. (2011) Geography of Twitter networks. Social Networks. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.05.006
- November 15, 2011
- 08:45 AM
- 242 views
Trends in Scholarly Communication & Knowledge Dissemination #SocialMedia #cdnpse #highered @ua_magazine @chronicle
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
It is no secret that Online Social Media (OSM) has become mainstream in recent years, and their adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of their growing popularity, numerous studies have been conducted on how the general public is using OSM. However, very little work has been done on how scholars are using and adapting to [...]... Read more »
Gruzd, A., Goertzen, M., and Mai, P. (2011) Survey Results Highlights: Trends in Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Dissemination in the Age of Online Social Media. Social Media Lab Report. info:/
- December 7, 2011
- 07:01 AM
- 235 views
Two Roads to Middle-earth Converge & one online social networks analysis tool to study them all: Introducing Netlytic
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
This post is part of the series of post designed to highlight some of the web tools that we are developing at the Social Media Lab and how they can be used for research. Given the choice between watching a movie or reading the book from which the movie is based on, which would you [...]... Read more »
Grek Martin, Jennifer M. (2011) Two Roads to Middle-earth Converge: Observing Text-based and Film-based Mental Images from TheOneRing.net Online Fan Community. Master's thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. info:/
- February 21, 2012
- 06:38 PM
- 175 views
Twitter Networks are like Airline Hub Maps: NPR Morning Edition story featuring study by @qaramazov @dalprof @barrywellman
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
I am pleased to share with you an NPR interview with one of my collaborators, Dr. Barry Wellman from the University of Toronto. He was interviewed by Shankar Vedantam for a story that was featured this morning (2/21/2012) on NPR Morning Edition with Steve Inskeep. In the interview, Dr. Wellman discussed findings from a recent study that he co-authored with Dr. Yuri Takhteyev and me called, “Geography of Twitter Networks.”... Read more »
Takhteyev, Y., Gruzd, A., & Wellman, B. (2012) Geography of Twitter networks. Social Networks, 34(1), 73-81. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.05.006
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