Social media PhD candidate awarded Fulbright

A Māori PhD candidate will soon be flying off to the US after being awarded the Fulbright-Harkness NZ Fellowship for 2013. Acushla Dee O'Carroll of Ngaruahine, Ngāti Ruanui and Te Atiawa is the recipient of the prestigious scholarship with her thesis on how indigenous communities use social networking sites.

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From: Te Karere TVNZ

Related topics : use of social network sites / phd thesis social media / social media network sites

Using Social Data for Transportation Planning

Meredith Cebelak is a PhD student at the University of Texas in the Center for Transportation Research. Here she discusses her Masters Thesis which uses social media check-in data for use in transportation models.

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From: CTRutaustin

Related topics : universities using social media

Kingston Stories: Kavita explains the use of social media in her PhD studies at Kingston University

As part of the Kingston Stories project we look at the research being undertaken by Kavita, a PhD student whose Doctoral thesis is titled: Facebook friendship groups: using descriptive social norms to shape sustainability practices.

Kavita explains the idea behind 'igreen', a Facebook application that examines whether users are influenced to change their sustainability habits after seeing how their friends have responded to the same quiz questions.

iGreen is part of the CHARM research...

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From: Kingston University

Related topics : universities using social media

Rebecca Xiong, 100x100 Project Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of SocMetrics

After finishing my PhD in Computer Science at MIT, I tried commercializing my thesis along with 3 Harvard MBAs. That didn't work out, so I worked for other startups. A few years later, a classmate of mine from the Socialble Media Group of MIT Media Lab and I decided it's time to build our own. With our strong interest in social media, we built an events social network called Going.com. Now I'm on my 2nd startup, this time enabling businesses to use social media to better spread the word about...

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From: smartgirlsway

Related topics : business using social media / social media brand monitoring / social media agency network / social media monitoring companies / social media help