Joint event

Abstracts

Program

Joint event

National Research University Higher School of Economics

Laboratory for Internet Studies (St.Petersburg)

 Faculty of sociology open seminars

Marc Smith

Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL

Public lecture

September 26

18:20

Room 301,16 Soyuza Pechatnikov St., St.Petersburg

AND

Room 435, 3 Kochnovsky Dr., Moscow (video conference)

Video conference is organized by Network methods and models for text analysis research group, HSE, Moscow

Marc Smith’s visit is funded Academic Development Foundation, HSE, St.Petersburg

 Marc Smith is the leader Connected Action consulting group  and the co-founder of Social Media Research Foundation, a non-profit devoted to open tools, data, and scholarship related to social media research. He is a sociologist specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. Smith is the co-editor with Peter Kollock of  Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity, interaction and social order develop in online groups. Along with Derek Hansen and Ben Shneiderman, he is the co-author and editor of  Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, from  Morgan-Kaufmann  which is a guide to mapping connections created through computer-mediated interactions.

In his lecture Marc Smith will speak of how a social scientist can make sense of a sea of tweets, posts, blogs, and updates using NodeXL software. NodeXL is an easy-to-master spreadsheet add-in for Excel that, apart from supporting standard social network analysis procedures, also supports the exploration of social media with import features that pull data from personal email indexes on the desktop, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and WWW hyper-links.