These slides were part of the kickoff for the Social Computing Collaborative group at the University of Minnesota - Jan. 2011. Each participant presented a single slide as part of their introduction of themselves and their social computing research interest areas.
38. Division of Epidemiology: Joined the HIPS team to pursue his dual academic interests in homosexuality and technology. Prior to his work here, Daniel was an entrepreneur in new-media and communication technology ventures. Interested in trending technology to identify intersections between new media, culture, sexuality, sexual identity, politics, and infectious disease. Daniel Holsinger
40. [email_address] twitter: @dawn_armfield Researching ethos & presence through anonymous identity in PostSecret.com dawn m. armfield phd student in Writing Studies
44. DISASTERS: Trainings, Simulations, Games, Alerts for First Responders ZOONOTIC OUTBREAKS: Response Systems for Pathologists in Resource-Poor Settings Hale Thompson Center for Public Health Outreach & Education
59. Mikhil Masli Cyclopath Collaboratively Edited Map Specialization How contributors specialize in particular types of work, and topics (locations), and what it means to designers. Eliciting Work How to elicit contributory behaviour using theories drawn from social psychology and knowledge of how people function. GroupLens Research Department of Computer Science and Engineering, U of M
67. Dialogue Earth Social Media Sentiment Analysis Challenge: Accurate,Timely, Cost Effective Data Subject Matter Experts Crowd-sourced Coders Algorithms Tom Masterman
73. Yoshikazu Suzuki 2 nd year M.A. student at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Current project: M.A. thesis; motivations to contribute to commons-based peer production (online user collaboration) Research agenda: social scientific exploration of the motivation of user participation
Hello, I’m Kelsi Dayle Anderson and I’m a Master’s candidate at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in Science, Technology, and Environmental policy. My interest lies in promoting public engagement, specifically towards environmental policy, through science communication and education. At the Institute on the Environment’s Dialogue Earth program, I am developing a methodology to identify the characteristics of *this* subset of news stories with the goal of then using those findings to guide scientists’ engagement with the public. “This* subset of news stories is particularly interesting because they “make it” in both the traditional and emerging media, thereby reaching the largest audience. This research will form the basis of my thesis, which I’m beginning this semester and plan to defend in next December.
I want to let you know that the majority of the research that I’m going to be citing is not my own . I’m sharing the work of others who have been studying technology use, learning and social media – and it’s a huge field – and some who have looked at parents. In my own lab we have ongoing research and planned research on 1) how and which parents use which technology for parenting, a baseline survey , 2) we’re evaluating existing online sites for parents – MN Parents Know, JITP, 3) we’re going to be creating social networking, geomapping technology for parents related to locating and sharing information about activities for young children, and 4) we’re looking at professional parents educators’ integration of technology . From use to product to evaluation to integration in practice. Perhaps if I run into you in a year I’ll have some of our results to share. You may have noticed the survey on your table . This is part of a study – looking at community-based educators’ attitudes about technology If you would fill it out during the talk, I’d appreciate it. There’s an information sheet on the table that tells more about the study. It’s optional of course, but I’d love your voice and experience to be considered in the research. Thanks very much.
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