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Course: Applied Social Network Analysis in Education
By Jon Dron 23 October 2021 @ 1:46pmbookdown.org - This is an interesting and largely open course that teaches social network analysis, applied in the context of education (though it is much more about social network analysis in general). It has quite comprehensive coverage, including ethical...UBCO study says it’s not if, but how people use social media that impacts their well-being
By Jon Dron 16 November 2020 @ 6:04pm Comments (1)news.ok.ubc.ca - This is a report on an interesting study which, unsurprisingly, confirms previous findings that the use of popular social media (in this case Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) correlates very closely with negative feelings, reduced well-being, and...Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - The New York Times
By Jon Dron 10 September 2020 @ 11:44am Comments (3)www.nytimes.com - This is a terrifying article on the all-powerful (in China) WeChat app, revealing some fascinating insights into the ways it is organized and policed - very literally - by Chinese authorities. As one source puts it, "The filter bubbles on WeChat...WT.Social
By Jon Dron 18 August 2020 @ 10:31pm Comments (1)https://wt.social/ - A social network that you can pay for, created by Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame). You can get in right away with no payment but I chose to pay because I believe in this kind of thing. It looks pretty cool, more set-like than network-like. From the...dlvr.it: Smart Social Media Automation
By Jon Dron 15 January 2017 @ 3:01pmhttps://dlvrit.com/ - One of a number of services, tools and plugins to enable syndication of content to and from various social media. As far as I can tell this is, in some ways, not quite as smart as something like Known, inasmuch as (from a cursory glance) it seems to...115 Must Know Facts about Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] - 2016
By Jon Dron 12 December 2016 @ 4:23pmskilled.co - Quite an interesting infographic snapshot of a (small but significant) subset of popular social media sites and their users, in infographic form, with sources. Gives a good overview of who, how, why and to what extent people tend to use some popular...Noah Kagan: Why entrepreneurs should have one goal - Business Insider
By Jon Dron 18 March 2016 @ 2:04pmwww.businessinsider.com - And the one goal is growth. Zuckerberg would always ask the same question: "Does it help us grow?" If not, he would tell Kagan he wasn't interested. This relentless and single-minded pursuit of growth not matter what the cost is of course what I...Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures
By Jon Dron 4 July 2013 @ 12:37pmwww.sciencemag.org - An interesting study analyzing tweets to identify the average mood of people tweeting throughout the day (spoiler - mood tends to deteriorate throughout the day). Large-scale social media make possible analytics research of this sort that would...SCA2011: Social computing conference CFP (deadline Aug 15)
By Jon Dron July 25, 2011 - 9:17am Comments (2)Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15,...6 Scientific Reasons Social Networks Are Bad for Society | Cracked.com
By Jon Dron 19 July 2011 @ 9:26amwww.cracked.com - Despite the lighthearted tone of the article and its aims at mass appeal, this actually points to some good papers on a range of interesting facets of social site use and behaviour.
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COMP 650: Social Computing
In support of COMP 650, Social Computing
