Part 2 – Who is working on social media at UCL?
By Simon J Lock, on 25 June 2012
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