Personal Digital Archiving 2011 - Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media

Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media:
Mapping and measuring social media networks to find key positions and structures
Marc A. Smith
Chief Social ScientistConnected Action Consulting Group
marc@connectedaction.net
http://www.connectedaction.net
http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl
A project from the Social Media Research Foundation: http://www.smrfoundation.org

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Marc A. Smith
Chief Social Scientist
Connected Action Consulting Group
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3295494976/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Many archives collect content but not the connections that link them (i.e. tweets but not follows/followers).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amycgx/3119640267/

Location, Location, Location

Network of connections among “SharePoint” mentioning Twitter users
Position, Position, Position

Archiving connections is possible- but few of the resellers or archives of social media do so.
Does the Library of Congress
have the
Links
in addition to the
Tweets?

There are many kinds of ties….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3254238329

“Think Link”Nodes & Edges
Is related to
B
A
In and Out Degree

Each contains one or more social networks
World Wide Web

NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel
Leverage spreadsheet for storage of edge and vertex data

Open Tools, Open Data, Open Scholarship

Social Media Research Foundationhttp://smrfoundation.org

Now Available

Communities in Cyberspace

NodeXL
Free/Open Social Network Analysis add-in for Excel 2007 makes graph theory as easy as a bar chart, integrated analysis of social media sources.
http://nodexl.codeplex.com

Import from multiple social media networksources

Social network of connections among people who tweet “Bachmann” on January 25, 2011

Connections among words tweeted by “red” and “blue” people who tweeted “Bachmann” on January 25, 2011

We envision hundreds of NodeXL data collectors around the world collectively generating a free and open archive of social media network snapshots on a wide range of topics.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/071012/071012_telescope_hmed_3p.jpg

Tools:
NodeXL
ThreadMill
Data
Twitter networks
Scholarship
Publications
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Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media:
Mapping and measuring social media networks to find key positions and structures
Marc A. Smith
Chief Social ScientistConnected Action Consulting Group
marc@connectedaction.net
A project from the Social Media Research Foundation: http://www.smrfoundation.org

Personal Digital Archiving 2011 - Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media

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