Category: Social Media & Networks
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SciGirls Code Playlists for Learning Final Report
{Art bots built with Hummingbird Robotics Kit} Who were you addressing with your design objective? SciGirls Code is designed for middle school girls (in grades 5-8) in out-of-school time. Sixteen participating sites, located across the country, will each engage ten girls in the nine-month pilot connected learning project. Sites are: Cedar Park Elementary School, Apple […]
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Important New Report on Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
A new report by Data + Society, “Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online,” reveals how “an amalgam of conspiracy theorists, techno-libertarians, white nationalists, Men’s Rights advocates, trolls, anti-feminists, anti-immigration activists, and bored young people” used the collaborative culture of the internet to spread their beliefs and manipulate the media. This extensive report by Alice Marwick and […]
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On the implications of multimodal research for ethnography– and for the environment
As a social scientist and scholar, I see the emergence of digital or multimodal dissertations— traditionally researched and developed theses, which are published electronically and enhanced by audio files, video segments and even infographics generated from the research data—as platforms that expand the accessibility, timeliness and utility of graduate research for a broader global community. […]
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Clean Air Survey
We chose to adapt the OPAL Air Survey in a few ways that improve upon the delivery of the survey. The OPAL Air Survey is an ambitious project that uses Lichen growing on trees to measure the relative health of the local air. Lichen are highly sensitive to air quality and have been used to detect […]
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Announcing #SocialDiss: Transforming the dissertation into networked knowledge production
To what extent can the general public participate in and benefit from the production of a dissertation? How might the private and anxiety-ridden processes of education be transformed into a public good and social joy? Are the imperfect artifacts of learning to be hidden and disposed of as shameful waste, or might they provide fertile […]
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Working as a teammate
We are supposed to perform a group project to analyze Dartmouth commencement speakers websites.First of all, every member of team should analyze the tasks individually using some tools like Voyant and then extracts most frequently words, and then analyze the website. After, all team members should bring all of the analysis together. I have two tasks (“Dartmouth […]
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Twitter Project Journey
Our project is trying to determine attitudes towards black Twitter, and things that people associate with black Twitter. We will collect tweets with key words and hashtags associated with black Twitter and organize the tweets by location, sentiment, and other categories. Our project is trying to determine attitudes towards black Twitter, and things that people associate […]
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Queer Internet Studies 2.0
Although I had a two-day migraine, I could not resist going to Jack Gieseking’s, Jessa Lingel’s, and Anne Esacove’s gathering of queer internet researchers from all over! When I arrived at the end of the first panel discussion, the second Queer Internet Studies Symposium audience was already abuzz with questions in the seminar room of The Institute of Contemporary Art at UPenn. We were […]
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Network as a Graph
Life and World are based on the Networks. All of the creatures and objects are connected together directly or indirectly. Relationship between us is kind of network. To better undrestading and modeling the network, scientists and mathematicians have defined network in high level mathematical term. Graph helps us to better and more accurate understanding of the relationships […]
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Voyant Exploration
I used Voyant to analyze two speeches: Michelle Obama’s final speech as First Lady of the United States, and President Barack Obama’s final speech as President of the United States. Voyant takes in text which becomes a corpus that is then analyzed for things such as word frequency, total word count, unique word count, etc. […]