Some more feedback from our Town Meeting. Part 1 (below) asked for generic areas of research at UCL, this time we’re posting the responses to our question ‘Who is already working on social media at UCL?’ and further to this details of any specific projects.

Below represents a verbatim transcript of the feedback (our very high-tech post-it note system).

If you are listed below, or one of the comments was yours please feel free to add more context/detail in the comments below (weblinks for example)

If you are not on the list then please make yourself or your project known in the comments!

We’ll collate this into a updatable list of people and projects to go alongside our growing list of UCL publications on social media in the resources section of the blog.

People or specific departments and projects working on social media at UCL

• Tilley – Social construction of landscape
• Social Network Analysis expertise across UCL (CS CASA CEGE etc)
• Existing expertise in social media (including location-based) @ CASA
• Netnography with spanish speaking migrants – Pablo Mateos (UCL Geography)
• UCLDH – user studies and social media for public engagement
• ‘Social Stream’ – project under the UK PhD Centre in Financial computing (Ilya Zhelvdev)
• Online support groups (illness and social media) – Henry Potts, CHIME, Chris Barker, Psych
• Science and Technology Studies Dept: how do technologies fit in societies generally?
• Myportfolio.ucl.ac.uk
• UCL Mental health sciences staff have expertise in picking up on risky communication i.e. suicidal crisis
• Prototype for geographical harvesting of tweets
• A load of computer scientists

Next post: direction for future research at UCL

One of the first questions we are interested in as part of our Grand Challenges Project on social media at UCL is what research is already going on at UCL on social media? At our kick-off Town Meeting, Daniel Miller discussed some of the work going on in the Anthropology Department at the meeting, and project member Claire Warwick also told us of the many different projects and people working on social media in the Centre for Digital Humanities.

We asked participants at the meeting to tell us about other areas of research which uses, or is on social media at UCL.

Below is a wordle which contains all the other areas of research on social media currently going on at UCL. If you notice any that are not listed then add them in the comments section below, preferably with links to the project websites:

Next post: Who is working on social media at UCL?

We’re going to be feeding back all the discussion and data collected at the Town meeting on the blog over the next few posts. We hope that this will allow those who were not there to also feed in further questions and suggestions for future research. It will also allow us to compile a updatable list of research, publications and people who are working in this area.

Finally, we’ll provide an idea of what needs to happen next and pull out, with your help, some of the key directions for future work of the project.

At the meeting we asked participants to feed in several different pieces of data:

1. Who is already working on social media at UCL?
2. What projects are already happening at UCL on social media?
3. What areas of future research are people interested in exploring, or think UCL should explore, in the future
4. What specific research questions would people like explored by future research?