Cornelius Puschmann and I wrote up an interesting and short paper about serious complaints with Klout, a now less important, but at the time very important website dedicated to scoring the influence of individuals. In short, we argued that influence is inherently contextual, that a commercial platform necessarily prioritizes monetization
The theoretical annihilation of geography as an intrinsic consideration in the transfer of information is one of the most salient features of the modern communications landscape. That a modern information and communications technology such as the Internet has this potential capacity, though, does not necessarily mean that it is incorporated
This one time, Zander Furnas and I were at a bar and were trying to figure out how to prove that someone had bought followers for their Twitter account - the original impetus was that we wanted to prove someone we knew was a charlatan who would totally do something
Mark Graham, Scott Hale, and I have written an article about the geolinguistic contours of Twitter mostly for the purpose of improving and exploring methodological choices available to researchers when they are working with Twitter's geographic and language metadata. A full version of the paper is available and
If you know me beyond this post, you know that I’m currently a master’s candidate at Oxford Internet Institute. As part of this, I am able to sit around and ask fun questions about the internet on a regular basis. Two days ago, I was in my optional
Gilad Lotan, Erhardt Graeff, Mike Ananny, Ian Pearce, danah boyd and I have written an article about the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter within this context. The Abstract is provided below and you can read a full version of the paper below. Abstract This article details the networked
Gilad Lotan, Cherie Meyer, and myself recently wrote up a piece for SocialFlow, a company that I am contracting/consulting for currently. We wanted to look at the spread of information surrounding the release of information that Osama bin Laden had been killed. Specifically, we wanted to identify the first
Note: This document is originally from work conducted with Ian Pearce and has been transcribed here for posterity. Read on for the original work conducted by us and largely aggregated via our old platform, 140kit. The Man Your Man Could Smell Like: Twitter Analytics Report a publication of the Web
For the final year of undergrad in college, I wanted to narrow down to an insanely specific degree and study the impact (if any) of Twitter on the protests following the Iran Election. I use Sandor Vegh’s categorization scheme to break any piece of particulate conversation (or tweet) into
The college I go to decided that they were going to fire our only computer science professor; I think that’s when we started really doing some incredible stuff. Knowing he didn’t have much time with us, we set off right away in the only major class he was
I have been working on a really exciting project with Ian Pearce and Max Darham that attempts to visualize Wikipedia. Our idea was as such: How are articles on Wikipedia organically organized? For instance, if you read the article on Bicycles, there will likely be links to the inventor of
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