Microsoft Research sociologist Marc Smith uses data mining and visualizations to get a picture of the way people act online:
"The goal of community research at Microsoft is to have a view of social cyberspace, the way we now have a view of the heavens above us or the planet itself."
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Last updated May 20, 2008
Related links
Marc Smith's Microsoft Research page
Visualizing the signatures of social roles in online discussion groups (Journal of Social Structure)
Picturing Usenet: Mapping computer-mediated collective action (Journal of Computer Mediated Communication)
How do we behave offline? (Marc Smith presentation)
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