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| Posted: 3/19/12 4:27 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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From LUCI Ph.D. graduate student Jed Brubaker, LUCI undergrad researcher Lee Taber, and LUCI faculty Dr. Gillian Hayes’s research comes this article at ReadWriteWeb entitled, “A Life Lived Online: How We Talk About Death on Social Media”:
“By examining user-generated content, the researchers were able to observe the grieving process in a naturalistic, public setting. What’s more is that this study focuses on “extreme expressions of grief and mourning in SNS following the death of a friend or loved one.” This means more than just a few Twitter-esque RIPs, trending topics and the dead popping up in one’s Facebook friend list. The researchers sought to expand the current knowledge base around the use of language in online grieving, rather than focus on the fact that people do express their grief on social media.”
The full press article is online here.
The academic article that inspired it is titled: “Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The Language of Bereavement and Distress in Social Media” and will be published in the upcoming proceedings of ICWSM-12.
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Tags: article, facebook, Gillian R. Hayes, ICSWM, Jed Brubaker, Lee Taber, press, twitter |
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| Posted: 3/15/12 3:53 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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UCI Spring Informatics Seminar Series 2012
Featuring Prem Devanbu, Genevieve Bell, Robin Dunbar, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Lievrouw, Sanjoy Mazumdar, Betty Cheng, Morana Alac, Mary Czerwindki, and Sharon Traweek!
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Tags: Betty Cheng, Genevieve Bell, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Lievrouw, LUCI, Mary Czerwindki, Morana Alac, Prem Devanbu, Robin Dunbar, Sanjoy Mazumdar, Sharon Traweek, UCI |
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| Posted: 3/9/12 10:10 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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From Technorati “Over 30 Million Accounts on Facebook Belong to Dead People”
A PhD candidate at UC Irvine, Jed Brubaker, studies death and social media and has written about how both service providers such as Facebook and “friends” of the deceased handle death and social media in a research study called Death and the Social Network: The Persistence of Digital Identity.
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| Posted: 3/8/12 5:58 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Informatics Ph.D. student Jed Brubaker represents in this article on ReadWriteWeb today!
“Jed Brubaker, a PhD Candidate at the University of California at Irvine, jokingly refers to himself as the “death guy.” But he’s not at all morbid. He describes his stumbling into the area of studies in death on social networks as a system error of sorts.
In 2011, he published a paper called “We will never forget you [online],” an empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments. Starting with this early social network, Brubaker began identifying trends which bled over into Facebook, where we’re more likely to find online memorial services occurring nowadays.”
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Tags: article, CHI, facebook, Jed Brubaker, myspace, Ph.D., social networks |
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| Posted: 3/7/12 1:50 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Congrats to Informatics grad students Ankita Raturi and Bart Knijnenburg who both rocked today at the TEDxUCIrvine speaking event on campus. The theme of the day was “Under Construction Indefinitely” and in addition to our students 18 other speakers including Francisco Ayala and Erwin Chemerinsky both internationally reknowned scholars on campus. That’s some good company to find yourself in Ankita and Bart!
Among a handful of gaffes that occured during the event was when the M.C. repeatedly mispronounced Bart’s research in “technopsychometrics” as “techo-psychic-metrics” which conjures up very different things. :) There are some other good stories to tell in person.
I’m sure the videos will follow sometime in the future.
Bart Knijnenburg at TEDxUCIrvine
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Tags: Ankita Raturi, Bart Knijnenburg, technopsychometrics, TED, UCI |
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| Posted: 3/4/12 12:58 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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