TweetI teach an MA course in Advanced Media Methodologies at the University of Cape Town. This year I’m presenting an elective which introduces Media students to Social Network Analysis. I’m really looking forward to teaching the course and seeing how a conceptual grounding in social network analysis and the techniques of visualisation will change the work my [...]
Getting started with social network analysis
Open social – Google code
TweetOpen Social – Google Code I was starting to get “profile fatigue” after joining about four social networking sites in the last few years when I realised it is interesting to watch how people buzz around in swarms from one social site to another. OpenSocial is another good Google idea, a way of hedging bets [...]
Long tails and fat cats: Social networks and inequality
TweetI’ve been fascinated by the idea of the “long tail” and online media for about a year now. The long tail is a distribution graph. For example, you might graph the number of blog readers for each blog, and arrange them in descending order of popularity – you’d find that a small number of blogs [...]