Social Media and Social Networks in the EuroMaidan Protests

Olga Onuch, Research Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford University, and Joshua Tucker, Professor of Politics New York University discuss their new survey and online media use data obtained during the recent EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine, their ground-breaking techniques for analysing how new technology interacts with established, “off-line,” social networks, and why policy makers across the world should take note of this research.

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From: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Related topics : new online social network / social networking research / social networking policy

Presentation for DSAI16 - Elderly's Comprehension on Facebook: a Communicability Evaluation

Presentation for the 7th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAI 2016).

This paper describes a qualitative research using the Communicability Evaluation Method for Collaborative Systems. The objective is to evaluate the elders’ interaction with the most popular social network in the world (Facebook), using a different approach to the proposed by the HCI community: communicability. In our case, we use...

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From: Carolina Sacramento

Related topics : social interaction network

The Relationships among Social Interaction, Economics, and Culture

To view the handout associated with this talk, go here: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/what-we-do/information/video/ac_809/

On March 15, 2016, Matthew Peeples (Arizona State University) presented “The Relationships among Social Interaction, Economics, and Culture.”

From Matt:

"The work I will present represents the initial results of a large and collaborative project involving Archaeology Southwest, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University. It is focused on using...

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From: ArchaeologySouthwest

Related topics : social network analysis culture / economic and social networking / social networking culture

Importance of Scientific Social Networks

Mary Canady's April 26 2014 presentation to the American Association of Anatomists Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology 2014. The PDF with links, and the Charles Darwin's interactive social network, can be found at http://comprendia.com/xbio

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From: Comprendia

Related topics : social interaction network

Virtual community

A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Some of the most pervasive virtual communities are online communities operating under social networking services.

The term virtual community is attributed to the book of the same title by Howard Rheingold. The book's discussion ranges from Rheingold's adventures on The WELL, computer-mediated...

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From: Audiopedia

Related topics : virtual community social networking / social media networks list / social networking service list

See how social media is changing the way we communicate

Zurich and Social Media - The rapid rise of social media has changed the way we communicate. Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (Zurich) sees the opportunities and is already successfully engaging with people through several different Social Media channels.

Yet the employee use of Social Media networking sites brings out challenges for Zurich which are addressed in Zurich's Social Media Guidelines.

Zurich has developed Social Media Guidelines to help employees make sensible decisions about...

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From: Zurich Insurance Group

Related topics : social media changed communication / social media network sites / using social media / social media management company / social media search

Faitheo = "Faith Echoes Online" The Christian social network

Faitheo = "Faith Echoes Online"

Your faithful and supportive Christian Social networking site like no other

Welcome to Faitheo! Faitheo is a Christian social networking site dedicated to bringing Christians from across the world together. Our goal is to build a community where like minded children of God can interact and share their faith. We are building a safe environment where Christians, ages 13+, can interact and grow as a person.

We are currently in the process of building out our...

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From: faiTHeoDOTCOM

Related topics : best christian social networking site / social networking sites blog

Exploring large social networks with matrix-based representations

As people conduct even more of their life electronically, vast new datasets are available for social scientists to analyze. Understanding the structure and evolution of popular online communities such as FaceBook, Flickr or Wikipedia creates new challenges for analysis tools. Information visualization can be a powerful approach to help social scientists both explore these social networks and present their findings to others. While most of the current systems propose node-link...

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From: Microsoft Research

Related topics : structure and evolution of online social networks / social network visualization tools / analysis social networks

Insight from the Rooster Teeth Podcast #157 - Social Networking

A segment from the Rooster Teeth podcast, in which Burnie makes an incredibly good point about the effects of social networking on our everyday feelings and interactions with our "friends".

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From: Atnevona

Related topics : podcast social network

Social Media Monitoring Software Application

Social networking is turning into a vital part of social life, online as social sites and applications proliferate. In business, online networking is utilized to market products, advertise your brands, interact with current clients and foster new business. Social media monitoring tools have developed in resent years from purely offering listening features to include rich analytics, dashboard creation, and powerful queries with semantic analysis. Social Media Management Tools belongs to a...

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From: Sproutsocial Alternative

Related topics : social media networking sites business / social media monitoring tools / social media analysis tools online / social media monitoring software / social media management tools