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UCL Social Media Publications

Her we list academic publications and reports on social media by UCL researchers . If you would like your publication(s) to be added to the list the please contact Simon Lock.

Papers on social networks and use of social network technologies:

Barthel, R., Hudson-Smith, A., & De Jode, M. (2010). Tales of Things – The Internet of ‘Old’ Tales of Things: Collecting Stories of Objects, Places and Spaces. Conference paper.

Behrens, M. M. (2011). Swipe ‘I like’: location based digital narrative through embedding the ‘Like’ button in the real world. Presented at: 5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – Digital Cities 7.

Canty, N. P. (2013). Social Media in Libraries: It’s Like, Complicated. Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues., 23 (2), 41-54. doi:10.7227/ALX.23.2.4

Costa, E. (2011). Online journalism and political activism in Lebanon. Oriente Moderno: rivista d’informazione e di studi per la diffusione della conoscenza della cultura dell’Oriente sopratutto Musulmano, 1-2011.

Costa, E. (2011). Social Media for Social Change: New Media Development, Ideologies of the Internet and Activist Imaginary in Lebanon. In Liénard F., S. Zlitni (Eds.), La Communication électronique: enjeux de langues. Limoges: Lambert-Lucas.

Fouseki, K., & Vacharopoulou, K. (2012). Digital Co-Curation and Public Participation [Whole issue]. International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era, 1 (4).

Fouseki, K., & Vacharopoulou, K. (2012). Preface: special Issue on digital co-curation and public participation. International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era, 1 (4), iii-x.

Fatah gen Schieck, A., Palmer, F., Penn, A., & O’Neill, E. (2011). Sensing, projecting and interpreting digital identity through Bluetooth: from anonymous encounters to social engagement. In M. Foth, L. Forlano, M. Gibbs, C. Satchel (Eds.), From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (pp. 293-313). MIT Press.

Fowler, D., Szomszor, M., Hammond, S., Lawrenson, J., & Kostkova, P. (2011). Engagement in Online Medical Communities of Practice in Healthcare: Analysis of Messages and Social Networks. eHealth, 91, 154-157. Springer.

Hagger-Johnson, G., Egan, V., & Stillwell, D. (2011). Are social networking profiles reliable indicators of sensational interests?. Journal of Research in Personality, 45 (1), 71-76.

Haklay, M. (2010). Computer-Mediated Communication, Collaboration and Groupware. In M. Haklay (Ed.), Interacting with Geospatial Technologies (pp. 67-87). Wiley.

Hudson-Smith, A., Crooks, A. T., Gibin, M., Milton, R., & Batty, M. (2009). Neogeography and web 2.0 : concepts, tools and applications. Journal of Location Based Services, 3 (2), 118-145. doi:10.1080/17489720902950366

Keene, S. (2006). Disruptive technologies: are museums immune?. EVA London Conference Proceedings, 14.1-14.10. London: EVA Conferences International.

Leder K, Karpovich A, Burke M, Speed C, Hudson-Smith A, O’Callaghan S, Simpson M, BARTHEL R, De Jode M, Blundell B (2010). Tagging is Connecting: Shared Object Memories as Channels for Sociocultural Cohesion. M/C Journal of Media and Culture, 13 (1).

Lim, S. L., & Bentley, P. J. (2011). Evolving Relationships between Social Networks and Stakeholder Involvement in Software Projects. ACM.

Lim, S.L and Finkelstein, A.(2011) “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

Lim, S.L, Quercia, D., and Finkelstein, A. (2010), “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

Madianou, M., & Miller, D. (2013). Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 16 (2), 169-187.

Madianou, M., & Miller, D. (2012). Migration and New Media. Routledge.

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

Mahoney, S. (2011). Research communities and open collaboration: the example of the Digital Classicist wiki. Digital Medievalist, 6.

Miller, D. (2012). Social Networking Sites. In H. Horst, D. Miller (Eds.), Digital Anthropology, p. 146-161.

Miller, D. (2012). What is the relationship between identities that people construct, express and consume online and those offline? Future Identities: Changing identities in the UK – the next 10 years. London.

Noulas, A., Scellato, S., Mascolo, C., & Pontil, M. (2011). An Empirical Study of Geographic User Activity Patterns in Foursquare. ICWSM. The AAAI Press.

Rockwell, G., Organisciak, P., Meredith-Lombay, M., Ranaweera, K., Ruecker, S., & Nyhan, J. (2012). The design of an international social media event: a day in the life of the digital humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 6 (2).

Singleton, A. D., & Hudson-Smith, A. (2008). Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World. GIS Professional, 21, 20-21.

Skarlatidou, A., Cheng, T., & Haklay, M. (2012). What Do Lay People Want to Know About the Disposal of Nuclear Waste? A Mental Model Approach to the Design and Development of an Online Risk Communication. Risk Analysis, 32 (9), 1496-1511.

Terras, M. M. (2012). Using social media to disseminate research outputs: a personal tale. Presented at: Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access. Repositories Support Project..

Terras, MM (2012) Using Social Media to Promote Open Access. In: (Proceedings) Open Access Week 2012: Opening Research and Data.

Terras, M. M. (2012). The impact of social media on the dissemination of research: results of an experiment. Journal of Digital Humanities, 1 (3).

Traunmueller, M., Fatah gen. Schieck, A., Schöning, J., & Brumby, D. (2013). The Path is the Reward: Considering Social Networks to contribute to the Pleasure of Urban Strolling. Presented at: CHI 2013.

Wang, J., Clements, M., Yang, J., de Vries, A. P., & Reinders, M. J. T. (2010). Personalization of tagging systems. INFORM PROCESS MANAG, 46 (1), 58-70. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2009.06.002

Washer, P., & Joffe, H. (n.d.). Public Engagement with Emerging Infectious Diseases in the New Media Age: Continuities and Discontinuities with the Past. European Psychologist.

Zhang, Y. H., Zhou, S., Zhang, Z., Guan, J. H., & Zhou, S. G. (2013). Rumor Evolution in Social Networks. Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), 87, 032133-1-032133-5.

Zhang, M., Jennett, C., Malheiros, M., & Sasse, M. A. (2012). Data after death: User requirements and design challenges for SNSs and email providers.Memento Mori: Technology Design for the End of Life (CHI Workshop 2012)

Papers on blogs and blogging

Cha, M., Pérez, J. A. N., & Haddadi, H. (2012). The spread of media content through blogs. Social Netw. Analys. Mining, 2, 249-264. doi:10.1007/s13278-011-0040-x

Laqua, S., Ogbechie, N., & Sasse, M. A. (2007). Contextualizing the Blogosphere: A Comparison of Traditional and Novel User Interfaces for the Web. Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI…but not as we know it – Volume 2 (BCS-HCI ’07), 2, 59-62. Swinton, UK: British Computer Society.

Rockwell, G., Ruecker, S., Organisciak, P., Meredith-Lomday, M., Ranaweera, K., & Nyhan, J. (2010). What do we say about ourselves? An analysis of the Day of DH 2009 data. Conference paper.

Sayeau, M. D. (n.d.). The Birth of the Lurker: Therapeutic Culture and Blogging. Re-Thinking Therapeutic Culture. University of Chicago Press.

Simon, I. R., & Phillips, J. (2005). Not so much a weblog, more a way of life. Computers & Law, 2005, 5-6.

Simon, I. R., & Phillips, J. (2003). Blogs for lawyers – false dawn or golden opportunity?. Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, September/October 2003.

Stanton Fraser, D., O’Neill, E., Jay, T., & Penn, A. (2012). My neighbourhood: Studying perceptions of urban space and neighbourhood with moblogging. Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

Terras, M. M. (2012). Whispers into the Void: Personal Reflections on Academic Blogging. Invited paper. Presented at: Weblogs in den Geisteswissenschaften.

Terras, M. M. (2012). The impact of social media on the dissemination of research: results of an experiment. Journal of Digital Humanities, 1 (3).

Welsh, A. (2006). Blogging: current awareness in the online age. Elisad Journal (17), 10-?.

Welsh, A., & Goodair, C. (2007). Blogging for networking and outreach. IFMH Inform, 18 (1), 8-10.

Papers on crowdsourcing

Buckingham Shum, S., Domingue, J., Aberer, K., Schmidt, A., Bishop, S., Lukowicz, P., & Helbing, D. (2012). Towards a global participatory platform: Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence. European Physical Journal: Special Topics, 214 (1), 109-152.

Causer, T., & Wallace, V. (2012). Building a volunteer community: results and findings from Transcribe Bentham. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 6.

Causer, T., Wallace, V., & Tonra, J. (2012). Transcription maximize; expense minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Literary and Linguistic Computing: the journal of digital scholarship in the humanities. 27 (2).

Causer, & Terras, M. (2013). ““Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work”: Transcribe Bentham and crowdsourcing manuscript collections. Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage. Ashgate.

Hudson-Smith, A., Batty, M., Crooks, A., & Milton, R. (2008). Mapping for the Masses: Accessing Web 2.0 through Crowdsourcing (CASA Working Paper Series). London: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis.

Hudson-Smith, A., Batty, M., Crooks, A. T., & Milton, R. (2009). Mapping for the masses : accessing web 2.0 through crowdsourcing. Social Science Computer Review, 27 (4). doi:10.1177/0894439309332299

Hudson-Smith, A., Milton, R., Crooks, A. T., & Batty, M. (2009). Crowd Sourced Data for the Social Sciences: Web Based Services and Real-Time Geographic Surveys.

Hudson-Smith, A., Evans, S., Batty, M., & Batty, S. (2005). Community Participation in Urban Regeneration Using Internet Technologies. LONDON’S ENVIRONMENT: PROSPECTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD CITY, 221-240.

Hudson-Smith, A., Evans, S., Batty, M., & Batty, S. (2005). Community Participation in Urban Regeneration using Internet Technologies. In J. Hunt (Ed.), London’s Environment: Prospects for a Sustainable World City (pp. 221-240). London: Imperial College Press.

Iacovides, I., Jennett, C. I., Cornish-Trestrail, C., & Cox, A. L. (2013). Do games attract or sustain engagement in citizen science?: A study of volunteer motivations. CHI EA ’13, CHI ’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1101-1106. NY, USA: ACM

Lim, S.L , Damian, D., and Finkelstein, A. (2011) “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

Maisonneuve, N., Stevens, M., Niessen, M. E., & Steels, L. (2009). NoiseTube: Measuring and mapping noise pollution with mobile phones. Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering, 215-228. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88351-7_16

Mashhadi, A., & Capra, L. (2011). Quality Control for Real-time Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing. Conference paper.

Stevens, M., & D’Hondt, E. (2010). Crowdsourcing of Pollution Data using Smartphones. Workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing. Conference paper given at Ubicomp ’10, Denmark.

Terras, M. M. (2012). Transcribe Bentham: Issues in Crowdsourcing. Presented at: The Oxford e-Research Centre Tuesday Seminar Series.

Terras, M., Causer, T., Wallace, V., & Tonra, J. (2011). Crowdsourcing the Digital Edition: The Transcribe Bentham Project.

Terras, M. M., & Causer, T. (2013). Crowdsourcing Bentham: beyond the traditional boundaries of academic history.

Tiedau, U., Mahony, S., & Sirmons, I. (2012). Chapter 8: Open access and online teaching materials for digital humanities. Digital Humanities in Practice (pp. 167-192). London: Facet.

Papers on Facebook

Anderson, B., Fagan, P., Woodnutt, T., & Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (in prep.). Facebook psychology: Popular questions answered by research. Psychology of Popular Media Culture.

Costa, E., Cavalli, N., Ferri, P., Mangiatordi, A., Scenini, F., & Serenelli, F. (2011). Facebook influence on university students media habits: qualitative results from a field research. Conference paper: Media in Transition – unstable platforms: the promise and peril of transition. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hagger-Johnson, G., Egan, V., & Stillwell, D. (2011). Are social networking profiles reliable indicators of sensational interests?. Journal of Research in Personality, 45 (1), 71-76. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.11.013

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

Miller, D. (2011). Tales from Facebook. Polity.

Miller, D. (2011). Landsbyen Facebook. Jordens Folk, 1, 12-17.

Miller, D. (2011). Facebook a Trinidad. Sciences Humaines, 229, 30-33.

Traunmueller, M., & Fatah gen Schieck, A. (2013). Following the voice of the crowd: Exploring opportunities for using global voting data to enrich local urban context. Conference Proceedings, LNCS serials. Springer.

Papers on image-hosting social media platforms:

Antoniou, V., Morley, J., & Haklay, M. (2009). Do photo sharing websites represent a sufficient database to aid in national map updating or change detection?.

Antoniou, B., Haklay, M., & Morley, J. (2010). Web 2.0 Geotagged Photos: Assessing the Spatial Dimension of the Phenomenon. Geomatica (Special issue on VGI), 64 (1), 99-110.

Mahony, S. (2011). Digitizing and Enriching a Teaching Image Collection for Classics.

Terras, M. (2011). The Digital Wunderkammer: Flickr as a Platform for Amateur Cultural and Heritage Content. Library Trends, 59 (4), 686-706. doi:10.1353/lib.2011.0022

Papers on Twitter

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

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

Adnan, M., & Longley, P. A. (2013). Featured Graphic: Tweets by different Ethnic Groups in Greater London. Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research, 45 (6). doi:10.1068/a4660

Adnan, M., Lansley, G., & Longley, P. A. (2013). A geodemographic analysis of the ethnicity and identity of Twitter users in Greater London. Conference paper. GIS Research UK. Liverpool, UK.

Adnan, M., & Longley, P. A. (2013). Analysis of Twitter Usage in London, Paris, and New York City. 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Leuven, Belgium.

Agrifoglio, R., Black, S., Metallo, C., & Ferrara, M. (2012). Extrinsic versus Intrinsic Motivation in continued Twitter Usage. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 53 (1), 33-41.

Furniss, D., Back, J., & Blandford, A. (2012). Cognitive resilience: can we use Twitter to make strategies more tangible?. ECCE, 96-99. ACM.

Hudson-Smith, A. P. (2013). Tweeting Sheep Pig. In M. Carnall (Ed.), null (pp. 80-81). Oxford, UK: Shire Publications Ltd.

Jenkinson, E., Thomas, E., Chater, A. M., & Coulson, N. (2012). Using Twitter to promote Health Psychology. Health Psychology Update, 21 (2), 3-6.

McKee, M., Cole, K., Hurst, L., Aldridge, R. W., & Horton, R. (2011). The other Twitter revolution: How social media are helping to monitor the NHS reforms. BMJ, 342 (7794), 415.

McKee, M., Cole, K., Hurst, L., Aldridge, R. W., & Horton, R. (2011). Observations Medicine and the Media The other Twitter revolution: how social media are helping to monitor the NHS reforms. BMJ, 342.

Quercia, D., Capra, L., & Crowcroft, J. (2012). The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions. ICWSM. The AAAI Press.

Quercia, D., Ellis, J., Capra, L., & Crowcroft, J. (2011). In the Mood for Being Influential on Twitter. SocialCom/PASSAT, 307-314. IEEE.

Quercia, D., Crowcroft, J., Ellis, J., & Capra, L. (2011). In the mood being influential on twitter mood. Proceedings – 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011, 307-314.

Quincey, E. D., & Kostkova, P. (2009). Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: The Potential of Twitter. eHealth, 27, 21-24. Springer.

Ross, C., Terras,M., Warwick, C. & Welsh, A. (2011) “Enabled backchannel: conference Twitter use by digital humanists”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 67 Iss: 2, pp.214 – 237.

Ross, C., Terras, M., Warwick, C., & Welsh, A. (2010). Pointless Babble or Enabled Backchannel: Conference Use of Twitter by Digital Humanists. Digital Humanities 2010, 214-217. London: Office for Humanities Communication.

Rowlands, I., Nicholas, D., Russell, B., Canty, N., & Watkinson, A. (2011). Social media use in the research workflow. LEARN PUBL, 24 (3), 183-195. doi:10.1087/20110306

Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., & Quincey, E. D. (2010). #Swineflu: Twitter Predicts Swine Flu Outbreak in 2009. eHealth, 69, 18-26. Springer.

Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., & Louis, C. S. (2011). Twitter Informatics: Tracking and Understanding Public Reaction during the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. Web Intelligence, 320-323. IEEE Computer Society.

Terras, M. M., Warwick, C., & Williams, S. (2013). What People Study When They Study Twitter: Classifying Twitter Related Academic Papers. Journal of Documentation, 69 (3).

Warwick, C. L. H. (2013). The Jar of Moles: Twitter celebrities and visitors’ favourite. In M. Carnall (Ed.), Conversation Pieces: Inspirational objects in UCL’s historic collections (pp. 34-35). Oxford, UK: Shire Publications Ltd.

Williams, S and Terras, M and Warwick, C (2012) Do Computer Science Scholars Consider Issues of Privacy when Studying Large Twitter Data Sets? In: (Proceedings) Asian Privacy Scholars Network, 2nd International Conference, Privacy in the Social Networked World.

Williams, S and Terras, M and Warwick, C (2013) How Twitter Is Studied in the Medical Professions: A Classification of Twitter Papers Indexed in PubMed. In: Medicine 2.0 Congress (World Congress on Social Media in Health, Medicine, Health, and Biomedical Research). : London, UK.

Papers on YouTube

Bhatia, K. (2012). Beware of YouTube: movement disorders on internet. Journal of Neurology, 259, S5.

Casselman, I., & Heinrich, M. (2011). Novel use patterns of Salvia divinorum: Unobtrusive observation using YouTube?. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 138 (3), 662-667. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2011.07.065

Drinot, P. (2011). Website of memory: The war of the Pacific (1879-84) in the global age of YouTube. Memory Studies, 4 (4), 370-385. doi:10.1177/1750698011409290

Stamelou M, Edwards MJ, Espay AJ, Fung VSC, Hallett M, Lang AE, Tijssen MAJ, Bhatia KP.(2011). Movement Disorders on YouTube – Caveat Spectator. New England Journal of Medicine, 365 (12), 1160-1161.