{"320851":{"#nid":"320851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gilbert Named Fellow in New Partnership for Ethical Online Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEric Gilbert, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, has been named a fellow in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/derp.institute\u0022\u003EDigital Ecologies Research Partnership (DERP)\u003C\/a\u003E, founded by several prominent online social communities to explore how publicly available data can be used for ethical academic inquiry into the social dynamics of online groups and websites.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a DERP Fellow, Gilbert will be on the group\u2019s advisory committee to help guide social research policies and operations. Gilbert\u2019s leading work in social computing is focused on the design and analysis of social media, and his research group at Georgia Tech, the comp.social lab, also builds experimental web systems. Some of his recent work includes research on phrases that \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-researchers-reveal-phrases-pay-kickstarter\u0022\u003Epredict Kickstarter success\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/face-it-instagram-pictures-faces-are-more-popular\u0022\u003Epopularity of selfies on Instagram\u003C\/a\u003E, predictors for \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/how-get-more-followers-twitter\u0022\u003Egaining Twitter followers\u003C\/a\u003E, and using social inferences for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8i_hnJXasic\u0022\u003Efaster e-commerce product ratings\u003C\/a\u003E. The Association of Computing Machinery\u2019s special interest group on Human-Computer Interaction research, ACM SIGCHI, has recognized Gilbert\u2019s work with four best paper awards and two nominations. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDERP presents a great opportunity for the research community to engage with large online communities in an open and ethical way,\u201d says Gilbert. \u201cWe\u2019re all very excited to see where this alliance takes us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDERP is designed to allow researchers easier access to public data beyond the likes of Facebook and Twitter and create broader opportunities for academic studies of online communities while respecting the privacy of users. Researchers will be able submit requests through DERP to use public data from any or all of the five partners in the group. These include reddit, twitch, Fark, imgur, and StackExchange. The research supported by DERP also will be made publicly available.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDERP, founded this year, plans to facilitate an active online research community by enabling better cross-platform analyses in academic research. The online partner communities in DERP will be able to work more closely together and address research questions through the collective approach.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe current 17 DERP Fellows are actively using social data from the member websites in their research. Among the fellows are researchers from Stanford, Columbia University, MIT, UC Berkley and others.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo find out more about DERP, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/derp.institute\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/derp.institute\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEric Gilbert, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, has been named a fellow in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/derp.institute\u0022\u003EDigital Ecologies Research Partnership (DERP)\u003C\/a\u003E, founded by several prominent online social communities to explore how publicly available data can be used for ethical academic inquiry into the social dynamics of online groups and websites.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eric Gilbert has been named a fellow in the Digital Ecologies Research Partnership (DERP), founded to explore how publicly available data can be used for ethical inquiry into the social dynamics of online groups and websites."}],"uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2014-09-03 10:39:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:59","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"320861":{"id":"320861","type":"image","title":"Eric Gilbert","body":null,"created":"1449245011","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:03:31","changed":"1475895029","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:29","alt":"Eric Gilbert","file":{"fid":"201784","name":"eric_gilbert.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/eric_gilbert.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/eric_gilbert.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":141493,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/eric_gilbert.jpg?itok=kpjFut7E"}}},"media_ids":["320861"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"101581","name":"derp"},{"id":"13342","name":"Eric Gilbert"},{"id":"101591","name":"ethical online research"},{"id":"2483","name":"interactive computing"},{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jpreston@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Preston\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGVU Center at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E678-231-0787\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jpreston@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}