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Part 1 – What research is already going on at UCL on social media?

By Simon J Lock, on 22 June 2012

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 MeetingDaniel 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:
Wordle: UCLSMP project

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

9 Responses to “Part 1 – What research is already going on at UCL on social media?”

  • 1
    Anthony Watkinson wrote on 22 June 2012:

    I thought the kick-off meeting was great and reflected where work was going on about social media but there were huge swathes of the academic community not there (perhaps the large majority in terms of numbers within UCL) though they use social media in their research. Do we want to make contact with these disciplines/groups or is that going to be just too much of a good thing.

  • 2
    Simon J Lock wrote on 22 June 2012:

    I agree Anthony, one of the things we hope that this blog does is bring the project to the attention of all those who couldn’t attend the meeting, or weren’t aware of it.

    Ultimately the project is about networking and fostering new collaborative projects so the more the merrier as far as I’m concerned!

  • 3
    Daniele Quercia wrote on 22 June 2012:

    I and Licia Capra of Computer Science have done some work in the area:

    1) The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dq209/publications/quercia12socialworld.pdf

    2) Tracking “Gross Community Happiness” from Tweets
    http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/fileadmin/UCL-CS/research/Research_Notes/RN_11_20.pdf

    3) In the Mood for Being Influential on Twitter
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dq209/publications/quercia11mood.pdf

  • 4
    Simon J Lock wrote on 22 June 2012:

    Thanks! This is exactly the sort of info we wanted.

    I’m going to collate all publications/details of people we get and put this up on a static webpage so that we can keep an updated bibliography and listing of relevant people and research in this area.

  • 5
    Anthony Finkelstein wrote on 23 June 2012:

    Papers on social networks and use of social network technologies:

    S. L. Lim, D. Damian and A. Finkelstein, “StakeSource2.0: Using Social Networks of Stakeholders to Identify and Prioritise Requirements,” in International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2011, pp 1022-1024.
    http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/A.Finkelstein/papers/stakesource2.pdf

    S. L. Lim and A. Finkelstein, “StakeRare: Using Social Networks and Collaborative Filtering for Large-Scale Requirements Elicitation”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Accepted for publication, 2011. Final Version.
    http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/A.Finkelstein/papers/stkraretse

    S. L. Lim, D. Quercia and A. Finkelstein, “StakeNet: using social networks to analyse the stakeholders of large-scale software projects” in International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), vol. 1. Cape Town, South Africa: IEEE CS Press, 2010, pp. 295-304.
    http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/A.Finkelstein/papers/stakeneticse.pdf

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    Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen wrote on 24 June 2012:

    I gave a paper on “Digital Memories and Memorial Culture in Second Life” a little while ago (http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/374124/), and have published an article (in Danish, I am afraid) on digital philology and the preservation of cultural heritage online (in which I argue for a social networks approach to digital philology and online archives (http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/122255/).

    In the department of Scandinavian Studies we use social media such as twitter, Facebook, blog (WordPress), iTunes U and YouTube in our Public Engagement project “Nordic Noir Book Club” (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/nordicnoir) – the project is central to the research efforts of both staff and PhD students in the department.

    Thanks for this blog – really exciting to learn about colleagues working in this field when I couldn’t make it to the Town Hall meeting.

  • 7
    David Beavan wrote on 26 June 2012:

    Inspired by the UCLSMP meeting I had a quick go at analysing tweets relating to the London Mayoral elections in May:

    https://twitter.com/DavidBeavan/status/197749451585110016

    It’s not as slick as it could be, but I wonder if some real-time spatial political study would be of interest to others? Comparing the official political outputs to media editorial to public sentiment? Can you imagine the impact!

  • 8
    Lorna Richardson wrote on 5 July 2012:

    I am a PhD student in the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, working on ‘Public Archaeology in a Digital Age’. My research is focused on the use of social media & Internet tech in archaeological communities involved in public engagement and outreach work in the UK (and overseas in the case of Twitter).
    I’ve recently been researching the use of Twitter in archaeology, and you can read an article I wrote about it here:
    http://digipubarch.org/2012/05/28/twitter-archaeology-2011/

    I’d love to get in touch with anyone else researching social media at UCL too

  • 9
    Shah Mahmood wrote on 11 August 2012:

    I and Prof. Desmedt have worked on Social Media and Privacy. So research outputs are:

    1. Your Facebook Deactivated Friend or a Cloaked Spy IEEE PerCom Workshops, 2012. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6197512)

    2. Preliminary Analysis of Google+’s Privacy. ACM CCS 2011 Poster. (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2093499)

    3. Usable Privacy by Visual and Interactive Control of Information Flow. Twentieth International Workshop on Security Protocols. (To appear)

    4. Online Social Networks, a Criminals Multipurpose Toolbox. Research in Attacks, Intrusion and Detection 2012. (Poster, To appear)

    5. From Privacy Jungles to Civilized Social Networks. Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2012. (To appear)

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