The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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5 selected videos
Hal Roberts and Ethan Zuckerman on Media Cloud and Quantitative News Media Analysis
The rapid rise of participatory media technologies weblogs, social networks, microblogging, video sharing sites are transforming the news media landscape, reshaping how ideas are spread. Much of the early research on the influence of participatory media on existing institutions focuses on specific, successful cases where media frames developed online influenced offline media. Our project seeks to complement this work with tools to facilitate quantitative analysis of the relationship between...
Related topics : social media analysis tools online / network analysis social media / social media news
Christian Sandvig: Future Social Science On and With Digital Media
What it means to study society is profoundly changing as we are increasingly surrounded by and incorporated into a pervasive network of digital media. In this panel, five scholars will comment for five minutes each on emerging research problems, opportunities, and methods in social science both with and about digital media. Topics will include computational (or e-) social science, new forms and genres of social media, new methods and tactics, legal obstacles to transformative research, and...
Related topics : social media in education research / social science network research
Zeynep Tufekci on Social Media-Fueled Protest Style From Arab Spring to Gezi Protests in Turkey
What can we learn from the protest wave of the last years? How does social media impact the capacity for collective action? Does social media contribute to blunting movement impacts by facilitating horizontal, non-institutional and "leaderless" movements? How do these movements compare with their predecessors like the civil-rights or
anti-colonial movements? In this talk Zeynep Tufekci -- assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, a faculty associate at Berkman Center for...
Related topics : media social impact / social media research
Tressie (McMillan) Cottom on Democratizing Ideologies and Inequality Regimes in Digital Domains
How are inequality regimes challenged, or sometimes perpetuated, in online environments? In this talk Tressie McMillan Cottom -- blogger, PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Emory University, and PhD Intern at the Microsoft Research Network’s Social Media Collective -- discusses inequality in online learning, based on qualitative research with students taking courses online at for-profit institutions.
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Related topics : microsoft social media collective / phd social media online
ISTTF: Social Networking Sites, Unwanted Sexual Solicitation
Michelle Ybarra speaks on the issues of sexual solicitation and cyberbullying in youth social network sites as part of the April 30, 2008 meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force in Washington, DC.
Related topics : internet social network sites
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