PBS Off Book features Alice talking about her and danah's research on teenage bullying and drama. A quick but excellent watch!
The Cost of Collaboration for Code and Art
Does collaboration result in higher quality creative works than individuals working alone? Is working in groups better for functional works like code than for creative works like art? Although these questions lie at the heart of conversations about collaborative production on the Internet and peer production, it can be hard to find research settings where you …
Look Who Stopped By: Siva Vaidhyanathan
We get a lot of wonderful and interesting visitors here at SMC. Today, we had the pleasure of spending time with Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor and the Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. SMC: So what brings you to MSR today? SV: For years I've wanted to visit MSR and …
MSR Social Media Collective 2013 Summer Internships
** APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 30, 2013 ** Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for PhD interns to join the social media collective for Summer 2013. For these positions, we are looking primarily for social science PhD students (including communication, sociology, anthropology, media studies, information studies, etc.). The Social Media Collective is a collection of …
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Microsoft Research, FUSE Labs Internship Opportunities
FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research is looking for interns for 2013. For these positions, we are looking primarily for graduate students from Computer Science, Information Science, Design, and other multidisciplinary fields with a focus on social computing and social media. FUSE Labs is a research and development lab at Microsoft Research focused on the design, …
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Microsoft Research, Social Media Collective Postdoc Opening
The Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for a social media postdoctoral researcher (start date: 1 July, 2013). This position is an ideal opportunity for a scholar whose work draws on anthropology, communication, media studies, sociology, and/or science and technology studies to bring empirical and critical perspectives to complex socio-technical …
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Free Speech, Context, and Visibility: Protesting Racist Ads
On Tuesday, Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested for "criminal mischief" - or "the willful damaging of property" - when she responded to disturbingly racist ads that were posted in the New York City subway system with spray paint. Her act of political resistance went beyond spray paint however. In some ways, it was intentionally …
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What is so interesting about the random, funny and glitchy
In the past few years, funny compilations of falls, glitches and fails from video games became popular even outside the gamer community. Acknowledged by their creators to be “random” and just “messing around”, the funny videos with goats floating up ladders, skateboarders falling through polygon walls and ridiculous car crashes in GTA have generated a …
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Measuring Networked Social Privacy
Xinru Page, Karen Tang, Fred Stutzman and I are organizing a two-day workshop on measuring networked social privacy at the CSCW 2013 conference next spring. We are inviting researchers from diverse backgrounds to come and work with us on what would it look like to "measure" networked social privacy in rigorous, productive ways. Please pass …
Digital In/Justice
I want to recommend a new post at Culture Digitally, "Digital In/Justice," both because it may be of interest to the readers of this blog, and because it features Microsoft Research's Mary Gray. Culture Digitally arranges occasional dialogues, in which two or more scholars go back and forth in conversation on a topic they are …
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