Many of the networks I retrieve and analysis are two-mode affiliation networks – meaning they’re networks of people connected to share objects or communities. For instance, Senators using the #gopconference hashtag on Twitter, where I’ll have an edgelist of Senators and the hashtags they use. NodeXL, my free network analysis software of choice, doesn’t currently...
Read more →Next week the Midwest Political Science Association meets in Chicago, and I’ll be presenting two papers. Here’s my schedule (locations TBD), abstracts after the jump: Thursday, April 12, 8:30am Social Media and Other Web-based Networks Doing What I Say: Connecting Congressional Social Media Behavior and Congressional Voting Friday, April 13, 10:25am State, Urban and...
Read more →Jahna Otterbacher and I have a paper at CSCW this year. I’ll be giving the presentation Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 9am in Grand K. Hope to see you there; abstract after the jump.
Read more →A growing body of literature examines trends in department prestige, graduate employment, and faculty hiring in academic fields such as communication, computer science, economics, higher education administration, and political science. Until recently, we had no similar empirical literature about the relative prestige or reputations of information graduate programs. Emilee Rader (now at Michigan State)...
Read more →In studying politicians on Twitter, one of my goals is to understand what they’re talking about. The trouble is, tweets are incredibly difficult to code. Researchers at Maryland claimed success with a coding scheme for Congress’ tweets, but my colleagues, students, and I were never able to reach acceptable inter-rater reliability using their scheme...
Read more →Chicago Aldermen Joe Moreno (Ward 1) and Brendan Reilly (Ward 42) live tweeted the Chicago budget meetings in late October. As the visualization below shows (click it to see the big version at Many Eyes), the #chibudget hash tag dominated all Aldermen’s discussions between 10/24 and 11/4. Even though 28 Aldermen have Twitter accounts,...
Read more →The Aldermen and Congress on Twitter projects made it into popular press and another conference this morning. You can read the popular press story from the Medill News site and conference abstracts below the jump. The papers investigate connections Aldermen make with their constituents via Twitter and how the language members of Congress use...
Read more →In 2004, Lada Adamic and Natalie Glance published Divided They Blog, a paper in which they report a stark divide between left- and right-wing bloggers. They found relatively few links between liberal and conservative bloggers and more links among conservative bloggers than among their liberal counterparts. I asked whether Congress’s online conversations reveal a similar...
Read more →Jahna Otterbacher and I will be headed to CSCW in February to present our paper - Learning the Lingo? Gender, Prestige and Linguistic Adaptation in Review Communities. Our findings suggest that women do participate in online communities but that their contributions get buried and stay mostly invisible. See the Room for Debate feature Where are the...
Read more →Matt Shapiro is presenting our paper – Going “Bald on Record”: Relationships Among Public Officials’ Social Media Behavior and Language Use – at this week’s Korean Association for Public Administration and American Society for Public Administration Joint International Conference. Can’t make it to Korea for the talk? Read the abstract after the jump. Jahna...
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