I will be teaching Social Media & Audience Profiling next week in the UCI Extension Business School. As part of the course materials, I made a PowerPoint presentation explaining some of the basics of network properties to provide some background. Call me crazy, but I think it helps to understand a little of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Networks'
Social Media & Network Properties (In PowerPoint)
July 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Networks, Social Media
The Lifespan Approach to Social Networking Tools
January 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Culture & Change, Networks, Positive Psychology, Social Media
Pew Internet & American Life Project researcher Amanda Lenhart reports in Adults and Social Network Websites that the number of adult Internet users who have taken up social networking has more than quadrupled since 2005. (Chart from USA Today.) This isn’t surprising if you consider the way conversations have moved toward social media as a [...]
Tags: media adoption·Networks·twitter
Facebook is just another connection
December 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Education, Psychology
An article in the Financial Times (Lawyers use Facebook to serve papers) reports that an Australian lawyer received permission from a local court to serve papers using Facebook social network. It seems that Mr. McCormack, the Canberra solicitor, had been unable to track down his victims in more traditional ways. The article also notes [...]
Tags: Facebook·legal process·mediated communications·Networks
Addicted to Twitter
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Networks
Thanks to my friend Jon Cabiria, wrote about Twitter in this blog on May 16 and got me started on this thing, I am now a Twitter addict. Twitter is a social networking site, a sort of micro-blog where you share tidbits and musings (called “Tweets”) with your friends, acquaintances, and total strangers. [...]
Twittering the day away
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Psychology, Technology
So, a friend asked me the other day what the attraction is for Twitter (http://www.twitter.com). What could so many people find interesting about the daily text bytes (140 maximum characters per posting) of a bunch of people, most of whom I don’t know? I have to admit that the question caused me to pause. I [...]
