One’s Facebook friend list may include their college professor, their grandmother, and an acquaintance from the dentist’s office. How can we infer a sense of relationships and relationship strength through social media? Karrie Karahalios, Berkman Fellow and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois discusses how we relate to one another on the web.
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March 2nd, 2010
One’s Facebook friend list may include their college professor, their grandmother, and an acquaintance from the dentist’s office. How can we infer a sense of relationships and relationship strength through social media? Karrie Karahalios, Berkman Fellow and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois discusses how we relate to one another on the web.
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March 2nd, 2010
Schnapp maps the overall contours of the “augmented” or digitalized museum by exploring The Tunnels experiment. The Tunnels is a 7000 square meter installation in Trento, Italy, where an abandoned industrial site has been repurposed as an experimental history museum with an island in Second Life serving as a support and learning space.
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February 23rd, 2010
Schnapp maps the overall contours of the “augmented” or digitalized museum by exploring The Tunnels experiment. The Tunnels is a 7000 square meter installation in Trento, Italy, where an abandoned industrial site has been repurposed as an experimental history museum with an island in Second Life serving as a support and learning space.
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February 23rd, 2010
Jure Leskovec of Stanford University explores the internet news cycle–the set of temporal patterns by which news grows and fades over time. His team’s analysis of approximately 1.6 million mainstream media sites and blogs for a period of three months shows a distinct “heartbeat”-like pattern in the handoff between news and blogs.
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February 16th, 2010
Jure Leskovec of Stanford University explores the internet news cycle–the set of temporal patterns by which news grows and fades over time. His team’s analysis of approximately 1.6 million mainstream media sites and blogs for a period of three months shows a distinct “heartbeat”-like pattern in the handoff between news and blogs.
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February 16th, 2010
Mary Gray of Indiana University maps out how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies make use of social media and local resources to combat the marginalization they contend with in their own communities as well as the erasure they face in popular representations of gay and lesbian life and the agendas of national gay and lesbian advocacy groups.
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February 16th, 2010
Mary Gray of Indiana University maps out how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies make use of social media and local resources to combat the marginalization they contend with in their own communities as well as the erasure they face in popular representations of gay and lesbian life and the agendas of national gay and lesbian advocacy groups.
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February 16th, 2010
Joe Karaganis discusses findings from a forthcoming six-country study of media piracy, including work on Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The study provides a rare empirical look at the organization of piracy and enforcement in developing countries, and explores the transformation of both as the optical disk economy give way to digital distribution.
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Joe Karaganis discusses findings from a forthcoming six-country study of media piracy, including work on Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The study provides a rare empirical look at the organization of piracy and enforcement in developing countries, and explores the transformation of both as the optical disk economy give way to digital distribution.
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