Today at 3pm my co-author Becky Roth is going to be presenting our paper “Implementing Social Media in Public Sector Organizations” at the 2012 iConference . Here’s the abstract and a copy of the paper.  I’m very happy with this work. I don’t usually do this kind of research method, but I think the integration with previous [...]

Here’s a *relatively* final draft of the e-communities course I am teaching this semester.  Some readings may shift around, but this is the basic structure.

SI529 eCommunities

Andrea Forte and I have been working with Barry Wellman to open an opportunity to do a special issue of the journal American Behavioral Scientist regarding research on Wikis, open collaboration, and Wikipedia. ABS is a widely read journal that is picked p by many different research communities.  Consequently, there’s a great chance to get [...]

            I’m here in lovely Mountain View California at the WikiSym Conference .  Really nice event, with some great talks you should check out. Our paper here is: Online and Offline Interactions in Online Communities ~ W. Mccully, C. Lampe, A. Sreenivasan, A. Velasquez and C. Sarkar Here’s the abstract: Online communities, while primarily [...]

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jen White at Michigan Pubic Radio and talk about how technology and social influence affect the distribution and consumption of social media.  A couple of key points I’m glad came out: – There’s a strong intermingling of media at this point.  Mass media stories are propagated [...]

I have a very anti-hipster confession to make. I don’t have great taste in music. I mean, I have music I like, and music I think is good, but in general I pretty much watch my my friends are listening to, and go with that.  It’s been like this pretty much forever. I think partially, it’s [...]