Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Session: When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics
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| Speakers: |
Matthew Hurst |
| Date: | Monday, June 23, 2008 11:25 AM - 11:40 AM |
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| Location: | Rose Theater |
Notes
- Salim Ismailsalim on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics: awesome visualizations... really cool seeing how he can track link propagation... the Jeff Jarvis Buzzmachine visual was amazing
- Ms, Kathy Gill
on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics:
matthew hurst
microsoft labs
site http://datamining.typepad.com/
second session on data visualization.
content - time - location
measuring reciprocal links; data clusters
In Matthew's model: blue is livejournal and red is blogspot
Blews - Blogs and News.
My Tweets from the session:
good data visuali ... - Robin Barrett
on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics:
Works at Microsoft Live
What can you do if you can aggregate all the data gathered between twitter and the ilk.
Range of data - we have a lot of data about author because a lot of these websites collect gender, location et al.
Content, Time and Location
Real time data, by keyword you can see location ... - Mr. John Breyault
on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics:
Matthew Hurst w/Microsoft Live Labs
Runs a group @ MS that does social media analysis
What can you do if you could aggregate all the socnet data out there?
Often able to find out a lot of data about the author of socnet content thanks to profiles (content, time, location, etc.)
Demo's app that tracks ... - David GalielDavid_Galiel
on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics:
Ways to draw useful insights from data derived from various social media.
Authors - often post profiles online - geography, posting history,
content time and location - mapping blogging posts over time to reveal national trends
linkages - reciprocal links can be linked similar to social networks
map ... - Jed Miller on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics: This work is a great continuation of the Netscan newsgroup analysis at Microsoft by Marc Smith and others - understanding that the response patterns and interaction among posters offer the richest source of information about how influence develops and trends move. The idea of an "induced" social netw ...
- Mark PearsonMark_Pearson_1
on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics:
Great tool to see where trends are with relation to the blogoshpere. This can be leveraged to restructure content at the time of posting.
Blews - Blogs and News. New application.
- Mr. Jordan Raynor
on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics:
Matthew Hurst - microsoft live labs - social media data and analysis
Any post out there has a title, tags, etc...We also know some things about the author (interest, age, sex). We also have access to most of their past posts.
What can we do with this data?
MAPPING THE BLOGOSPHERE
If blogger A has a ... - Geoff Decker on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics: REALLY looking forward to this, as I'm an editor for whereIstand.com, an opinion aggregator that relies on users to post evidence of public figure opinions on important issues. It can be anyone, politicians, sports writers, celebrities, pundits. If they have an opinion and the issue is worthy of deba ...
- Alan Smith on When Worlds Collide: Social Media, Mainstream Media and Politics:
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