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Jed talks social media mourning on Iowa Public Radio - July 13th, 2012

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“A lot of us live much of our lives online, and online communities are also becoming an important part of death. On today’s “Talk of Iowa”, we’ll find out about an online community for people who have lost a loved one, how funeral homes are embracing technology, and life after death on Facebook. Our guests include Heart2Soul founder Karen Zinn, John Wild of Iles funeral Home in Des Moines, Tom Frisch of GotFuneral, and PhD student studying social media mourning practices, Jed Brubaker.”

Jed’s part in the interview starts at 31:30.

My favorite moment in the interview, “oops, Sarah is no longer with us.” When a caller hangs up on Jed.

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Posted: 7/13/12 5:41 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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How we die in social networks - March 7th, 2012

2006-08-26 Memento mori

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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Posted: 3/7/12 1:50 am UTC by Make the First Comment
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LUCI is doing: Death and the Social Network - May 10th, 2011

Death and the Social Network

Death and the Social Network

What has LUCI been up to recently?

Death and the Social Network

The mass adoption of social network sites includes a growing presence of profiles of individuals who are no longer alive. The death of a user, however, does not result in the elimination of his or her account or the profile’s place inside a network of digital peers. Friends use these profiles post mortem to say last goodbyes, share memories and to coordinate funeral arrangements. Death plays an increasingly significant role in the experience of social networking. The intertwining of online and offline experience highlights the importance of thinking about digital representations as things that might well survive their owners.

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Posted: 5/10/11 10:00 am UTC by Make the First Comment
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Informatics researcher Ban Al-Ani tracks role of social media in Egyptian uprising - February 9th, 2011

Ban looks at social media

Michelle S. Kim / University Communications

UCI Communications highlights Ban Al-Ani, one of the research scientists that works in the Informatics Department.

“ICS research scientist Ban Al-Ani, here perusing Arabic blogs, says of social media: ‘We have these tools that are fairly young and yet have fueled something that is going to cause phenomenal change for the 80 million people living in Egypt, and beyond.’”

via UC Irvine Feature: Egyptian uprising.

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Posted: 2/9/11 6:13 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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LUCI has 8 (!) papers accepted to CSCW - November 12th, 2010

Moleskins and Pens

Photo courtesy of paulworthington

The LUCI lab will have a tremendous showing at CSCW 2011. The list of accepted works was just released and includes the following by grad students and faculty:

Full Papers:

“We will never forget you [online]”: An empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments by Jed R. Brubaker (LUCI grad student), Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)

SELECT * FROM USER: Infrastructure and Socio-technical Representation by Jed R. Brubaker (LUCI grad student), Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)

Improving Communication and Social Support for Caregivers of High-Risk Infants through Mobile Technologies by Leslie S. Liu (LUCI grad student), Sen H. Hirano (LUCI grad student), Monica Tentori (LUCI post-doc), Karen G. Cheng (Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science), Sheba George (Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science), Sunyoung Park (LUCI grad student), Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)

The Values of Data: Considering the Context of Production in Data Economies by Janet Vertesi (Princeton University), Paul Dourish (LUCI faculty)

Social Mechanisms and Technological Affordances for Building Trust: ICT Use By Civilians in a Warzone by Bryan Semaan (Informatics grad student), Gloria Mark (Informatics faculty)

Notes:

Health Information Use in Chronic Care Cycles by Yunan Chen (LUCI faculty)

Forget Online Communities? Revisit Cooperative Work! by Yong Ming Kow (Informatics grad student), Bonnie Nardi (LUCI faculty)

What Do My Buddies Choose?: Informing Privacy Preferences with Social Navigation by Sameer Patil (former LUCI grad student), Xinru Page (Informatics grad student), Alfred Kobsa (Informatics faculty)

Congratulations
Jed, Gillian, Leslie, Sen, Monica Tentori, Karen, Sheba, Sunyoung, Bryan, Gloria, Yunan, Janet, Paul, Yong Ming, Bonnie, Sameer, Xinru and Alfred!

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Posted: 11/12/10 4:24 pm UTC by Add Your Comment
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Social Media Revolution - May 25th, 2010

From left, Butts, Patterson, Venkatesh and Goldberg dissect social media from the vantage points of their individual fields.

From a CalIT2 Interface article which posted in full here.

Is the social media revolution real, or just hyperbole?

UC Irvine professors from four disciplines – humanities, business, social sciences and computer science – weigh in on this hot topic. They are David Goldberg, professor of comparative literature and director of the UC Humanities Research Institute; Alladi Venkatesh, professor of management and associate director of CRITO (The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations); Carter Butts, associate professor of sociology and director of the Networks, Computation and Social Dynamics Lab; and Donald Patterson, assistant professor of informatics and director of LUCI (Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction).

Q. What are some of the negative implications?

Patterson: As social networks begin to encompass all of life, they bring with them many of the same problems that we have in real, or non-digital, life. I think the assumption that everyone on your social network is a “friend” will be tested. We’ll need to learn how to deal with the people who won’t stop talking, stand too close, creep us out, but whom we can’t just wholesale disconnect from because of social and professional obligations.

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Posted: 5/25/10 4:03 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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Erasing your digital footprint - February 17th, 2010

Two sites that automate the process of removing yourself from the Internet

web 2.0 suicide machine

web 2.0 suicide machine

Web 2.0 suicide machine: “Tired of your Social Network?

“Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our service currently runs with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn! Commit NOW!”

seppukoo

seppukoo

seppukoo:”You are more than your virtual identity”

«Virtual life» is an – often – abused term used to describe the whole of one person online activities. But as media communications let our second/online/offline identities overflowing into real life – and vice-versa – the distinctions between the real and the virtual are becoming, more and more confused. Which is virtual? And where’s the real? Beyond all those questions only a fact remains: that our privacy, our profiles, our identities, our relationships, they are all – fake and/or real – entirely exploited for a sole purpose: to be sold as a product. But are those lives really worth to be experienced?”

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Posted: 2/17/10 3:44 pm UTC by Add Your Comment
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PleaseRobMe.com - February 17th, 2010

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“More a social statement than an actual utility for aspiring Colton Harris-Moore* copycats, a new site called Please Rob Me has popped up to expose the potential pratfalls of the geolocation craze: If you’re pushing a “check-in” from Gowalla, Brightkite, or Foursquare to a local restaurant out to your public Twitter stream, you’re broadcasting that you aren’t home. Which could be taken to mean that your home is ripe for burglary.”

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The dark side of geo: PleaseRobMe.com | The Social – CNET News

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Posted: 2/17/10 11:56 am UTC by Make the First Comment
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Patterson discusses the good and bad, current role and future of social media - February 1st, 2010

Freaky Picture of Don

Freaky Picture of Don

“Social media is everywhere – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, My Space, blogs. Making sense of this online networking universe is Donald Patterson, UC Irvine assistant professor of informatics.”

UC Irvine Feature: Social media

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Posted: 2/1/10 5:03 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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DARPA Network Challenge - December 5th, 2009

DARPA balloon

DARPA balloon

If you see a red balloon from DARPA’s network challenge, report it through this link – run by MIT – and LUCI lab will get some $$ and credit.

http://balloon.media.mit.edu/luci/

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Posted: 12/5/09 8:35 am UTC by Make the First Comment
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