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Facebook’s “Download your Information” reviewed
As part of Facebook’s march to capture as much of your life as possible while making you feel okay about it, last month they announced a “Download your Data” feature. This feature has been rolled out...
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What you can and can’t get from Facebook
I have had several interesting requests for my NameGen program, including the much maligned desktop application that is not really active development (pending future grant money). What is interesting...
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OII Network course 2011: A Showcase
For the second year in a row, I co-taught the OII’s Online Social Networks course with Dr. Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon. Again this year we had some excellent studies and some excellent students. But I...
View ArticleNodeXL / Network Workshop at UKSNA
I’m giving a one day workshop at the upcoming UK Social Networks Association conference in Greenwich. The workshop is on Wednesday, July 6th. Registration is still open. Here’s the write up from the...
View ArticleCraigslist Discrimination paper accepted for City & Community
What’s in a name? Is Bernie more likely to get a call back for an apartment than Jamal or Abdul? The answer is most likely, at least on Craigslist (and we have just as much reason to believe elsewhere...
View ArticleCorrection: Gender detection is not always helpful
In a recent New Scientist article I was quoted on a story about gender-detection technology. The hook was that this technology might have detected the fraudulence of the author of the moderately...
View ArticleCorrection!!! My NodeXL workshop is Tuesday
Just a small correction to note that my NodeXL social network analysis workshop is on Tuesday, July 5th! Still on the fence? Here’s a testamonial from Dr Jo Hamilton, ClimateXChange Coordinator at the...
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Real name sites are necessarily inadequate for free speech
Recently on the social media collective blog, danah boyd set off a firestorm by suggesting that the imposition of real names on social media sites is an abuse of power…or even authoritarian. The...
View ArticleJob opening for part time researcher on Wikipedia
We are looking for a part time researcher for our wikipedia project. It should be someone with quantitative skills and a history of writing for an academic audience (and some post-graduate training)....
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A comment on Fuchs’ Social Media.
This is the draft text of a response that I gave to a Book Colloquim on Christian Fuchs’ “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”. The text differs somewhat from a transcript, but I’m posting it ere at...
View ArticleBaby steps
I’m taking baby steps with this new blog and making sure I’ve got the tools I want all sorted out. But the short version is that I plan on using a [Scrivener][], [TextMate][], [Markdown][],...
View ArticleOpera Unite and p2p dreamin’
One of the overwhelming new features of digital culture is how objects persist on servers when we’re not tending to them. Facebook photos stay up, mail lie in waiting, pages representing not merely a...
View ArticleThinking “I should look that up”
Not long ago when listening to the band [Menomena][] I thought to myself, “I should look up more about them.” It’s a pretty mundane thought, in fact one I have pretty regularly through the day, not...
View ArticleThe global network
For me, presently the most impressive network in the world is not the network of email traffic, Facebook friends or cell phone calls. Both for sheer size and complexity, the personal network must...
View ArticleCall for Papers Extended – BSTS
We have extended our call for papers for the special issue of Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. Please note the new dates. Feel free to contact either myself or Anabel with questions or...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing sociology
[Reddit][] has posts of all kinds, and comments to follow. This includes its fair share of navel gazing. But reddit’s penchant for self analysis has no lack of thoughtful points alongside mere...
View ArticleOff the Internet no one knows you’re an escapee
Craig “Lazie” Lynch escaped from prison in September of 2009. Recently, he has become somewhat of an international spectacle as he has been posting some regular updates on [Facebook][cl]. Some probably...
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New Pinwheel network layout
I’m presently working on a chapter on Facebook networks for the forthcoming Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL edited by Marc Smith, Derek Hansen and Ben Shneiderman. Working with [NodeXL][nx]...
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Many Faces of Facebook
I’m a mentor for Nina Jones for BBC Material World’s contest, [“So You Want to Be a Scientist”][BBC]. We set up a survey on the project [Facebook page][FB]. The survey is finished, the data is almost...
View Article(Face)Book week for Bernie
Wow, what a week for Facebook and me! Nevermind the fact that results from the “So you want to be a scientist” project with Nina Jones went massive on BBC’s website (as the top story two days running...
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