{"65384":{"#nid":"65384","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag: Eric Gilbert","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch3\u003ESocial media research, live on the web\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\n                    \u003Cp\u003ESocial media presents a new chance to answer old \nquestions from the social sciences. Recently, we\u0027ve seen a lot of great \nwork in this area. At some point, though, most academics find themselves\n asking, \u0022Where do I get data?\u0022 In this talk, I\u0027ll present my best \nattempt at overcoming this problem: 1) build something people want to \nuse; 2) put it on the web; 3) as a side effect, answer the questions you\n care about. Usually this means building something that is both informed\n by and will inform theory. I\u0027ll start the talk by demoing my \ndissertation project, We Meddle, a Twitter app that computes tie \nstrength between you and the people you follow. Next, I\u0027ll discuss Link \nDifferent, a site to discover how many of your Twitter followers have \nalready seen the link you\u0027re about to post. The talk will conclude with a\n demo of a new site called courteous.ly, designed to show people an \nabstract view of your current email load.\u003C\/p\u003E\n        \n        \n\n\n    \n            \n                      \n              \u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\n                    \u003Cp\u003EEric Gilbert is an Assistant Professor in the \nSchool of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He recently joined the \nfaculty after finishing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Illinois. His new\n research group, focused on building and studying social media, is \ncalled comp.social (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/comp.social.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/comp.social.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). While at Illinois, Dr. Gilbert held the Google Fellowship in Social Computing. He likes Atlanta and really likes coffee.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Social media research, live on the web"}],"uid":"27197","created_gmt":"2011-04-05 15:24:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:42","author":"Renata Le Dantec","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-04-07T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-04-07T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-04-07T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-04-07 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-04-07 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-04-07 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"},{"id":"5743","name":"GVU Brown Bag"},{"id":"10621","name":"hcc"},{"id":"8494","name":"HCI"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}