Zhenzhen was invited to visit the University of Tampere between Aug 4 and 15. She gave a talk about network evolution in the Sino-Finnish Summer School on Social Media Data Analysis. The summer school was co-organized by the School of Communication, Media and Theatre and School of Information Sciences at the University of Tampere. Fifteen
Dr. Hu Haibo visited Web Mining Lab on Feb 2013. He is affiliated with Business School of East China University of Science and Technology. Dr. Hu presented his work on preferential linking and had a heated discussion with members of the lab. (Zhenzhen)
The paper Discussing Occupy Wall Street on Twitter: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Equality, Emotion, and Stability of Public Discussion coauthored by Cheng-Jun Wang, Pian-pian Wang and Jonathan Zhu has been accepted by Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking which is ranked 4 out of 72 in the Communication category of the Journal Citation Report 2011 (Social Sciences Edition, sorted by 5-Year Impact Factor) . The
Jonathan gave a talk on “Interdisciplinarity of social media research: status, problems and future” at the newly founded Tsinghua University-Renren.com Social Media Research Center on November 17, 2012. Prof. Jin Jianbin, Director of the Center, introduced Jonathan as the most suitable speaker chosen to kick off the Tsinghua-Renren Social Media Lecture Series. In his talk,
Lab member, Hai Liang (4th year PhD student), with Cui Anyong (MA student in CNM) and other two master students in creative media participated in Visualizing Global Marathon 2012 early of this month. By analyzing 70,000 tweets on 2012 US presidential election using Natural Language Processing techniques, they visualized the evolutionary process of users’ discourse over 16 days