Social Media Toolkit
This is a collection of tips, recommendations, tools and pieces of social media best practice. Compiled by The Open University's Social Media Team, it’s primarily aimed at colleagues who use social media in a professional capacity. This includes: People managing accounts as The Open UniversityPeople managing accounts as a nation, faculty, department, unit or any other part of the OUAcademic staff with personal accounts who post about their work
What is Social Network Analysis?
What is Network Analysis? Network analysis is the study of social relations among a set of actors. It is a field of study -- a set of phenomena or data which we seek to understand. In the process of working in this field, network researchers have developed a set of distinctive theoretical perspectives as well.
What does it mean to be posthuman?
By David Cohen HOW would you like to be a posthuman? You know, a person who has gone beyond the “maximum attainable capacities by any current human being without recourse to new technological means”, as philosopher Nick Bostrum of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford so carefully described it in a recent paper. In other words, a superbeing by today’s standards. If this sounds like hyperbole, bear with me.
About - Digital Media Research Centre
Our vision The Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) conducts world-leading research that helps society understand and adapt to the social, cultural and economic transformations associated with digital media technologies. Aims and objectives Digital media have become a near-ubiquitous part of our everyday lives.
Social network analysis: Wikipedia
Social network analysis (SNA) is the analysis of social networks. Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of network theory, consisting of nodes (representing individual actors within the network) and ties (which represent relationships between the individuals, such as friendship, kinship, organizations, sexual relationships, etc.)[1][2] These networks are often depicted in a social network diagram, where nodes are represented as points and ties are represented as lines. Overview[edit] Social network analysis has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology.
Debates in the Digital Humanities
2011, tools, quarterly, victoria, now, jobs, projects, startup grant, companion, blog —Top ten Google Instant appendages to a search on “digital humanities” as of April 28, 2011, 10:35 AM EDT This Strange Confluence Digital humanities is a tactical term. In a previous essay, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” I suggested that for those seeking to define digital humanities, the then-current Wikipedia definition (and top Google hit) served about as well as any and could save a lot of headache and, second, that the term “digital humanities” itself has a specific, recoverable history, originating with circumstances (which I documented) having primarily to do with marketing and uptake, and, third, that the term is now being “wielded instrumentally” by those seeking to effect change “amid the increasingly monstrous institutional terrain” of the contemporary academy.
Media Commentary — Callie Schweitzer
How We Internet: Finding the right news among too many options: The days of waiting for the newspaper thud outside the front door are over, and it’s no longer up to the editors of the New York Times to decide the lead story of the day. The process of getting news involves more choice than ever.
Why Social Network Analysis?
In the new era of leadership, we have learned that collaboration and networked leadership models trumps individual models of heroic leadership. We’re wiser and capable of greater things together than apart. But how do we measure if we’re succeeding at collaboration? If we’ve created a healthy network?
Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality
Warning: this article contains some spoilers. Hated in the Nation Hated in the Nation is Black Mirror’s excursion into public shame: it takes a series of targets who have brought disapprobation upon themselves. One is a columnist who slates a disabled person; another, an X Factor style judge who scorns a nine-year-old; a protestor who pretends to urinate on a war memorial; a politician so closely modelled on George Osborne that it made me feel nostalgic for a pre-Brexit age, when he was the summit of Tory obnoxiousness. They all find themselves in the eye of a Twitter storm, only this time it’s for real – the anger doesn’t crescendo then vanish.
Joho the BlogJoho the Blog - Let's just see what happens
The hosts of the BardCast podcast consider Cymbeline to probably be Shakespeare’s worst play. Not enough happens in the first two acts, the plot is kuh-razy, it’s a mishmash of styles and cultures, and it over-explains itself time and time again. That podcast is far from alone in thinking that it’s the Bard’s worst, although, as BardCast says, even the Bard’s worst is better than just about anything. Nevertheless, when was the last time you saw a performance of Cymbeline? Yeah, me neither.
Applying a social network analysis (SNA) approach to understanding radiologists'
SAO/NASA ADS Physics Abstract Service · Electronic On-line Article (HTML)· References in the Article· Reads History· · Translate This Page Abstract Rationale and objectives: Observer performance has been widely studied through examining the characteristics of individuals. Applying a systems perspective, while understanding of the system's output, requires a study of the interactions between observers.
Listicles, aggregation, and content gone viral: How 1800s newspapers prefigured today’s Internet
“If you think BuzzFeed invented the listicle, you haven’t spent enough time with 19th-century newspapers, because they’re everywhere.” That’s Ryan Cordell, a Northeastern University professor who researches virality in 19th-century newspapers, during a talk he gave recently at MIT. It was a common practice for 19th-century newspapers to republish poems, fiction excerpts, and even lists of facts that were originally published elsewhere. Editors would subscribe to many newspapers and would cut out things they thought were interesting, relevant, or fit a space on the page that they needed to fill and then republish them in their own papers, Cordell explained.
