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Fabian Flöck to present in the SONIC Speaker Series
SONIC Lab is proud to welcome Fabian Flöck, who will present a talk on Monday, May 19, 2014 (3:00pm) in SONIC Lab in the Frances Searle Building room 1.459. All are welcome to attend. To schedule a one-on-one meeting with a SONIC speaker please schedule a time at bit.ly/SonicSpeaker (May 19, from 10 am to 5 pm).
Accurately Mining Collaboration Interactions in Wikipedia to Detect Systematic Social Mechanisms
Several studies have described systematically occurring interaction patterns, or “social mechanisms”, between editors in collaborative writing of Wikipedia articles. These include ownership behavior, editor camps, newcomer rejection and others. Yet, only few of them have been adequately modeled to detect them methodically. The research that will be presented aims to provide such a model, especially finding suited metrics to describe potentially harmful social mechanisms and to understand them better.
The main challenges that arise in this context are (i) to comprehensively and accurately mine data about the underlying editor to editor interactions occurring in an article (i.e., who exactly collaborates with or antagonizes whom?) and (ii) to represent these interactions in an appropriate model capturing all relevant intricacies over time, e.g., a social graph structure; and (iii) based on this, to find correlations of emerging patterns with the appearance of explicit indicators for these mechanisms.
The talk will cover how we already collected relevant social mechanisms from the literature and successfully tackled the data mining challenge, providing novel raw data to infer editor relationships. It will then outline our current work on modeling editor interactions and plans how to detect the suspected mechanisms in the data.
About Fabian Flöck
Fabian Flöck is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Prior to pursuing his academic career, he worked as head product manager for a Social Network based in Hamburg, Germany and as a consultant on web design and content architecture for a creative agency in San Francisco, CA. He holds a Diplom (≈M.Sc.) in Media Studies/ Empirical Sociology from the University of Cologne. His research focuses on how to mine the social dynamics in large-scale collaborative online platforms and how they shape the performance of these systems. This includes research work on socio-technical interactions in tagging systems, crowdsourcing solutions, online communities (such as reddit), as well as his main research topic, studying how certain systematic social mechanisms in Wikipedia can influence content production and how they can be detected and made more transparent.
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Accurately Mining Collaboration Interactions in Wikipedia to Detect Systematic Social Mechanisms
Yahoo Buys Blink, a Snapchat Rival, and Will Shut It Down
A New Private Chat App for Applebee’s Customers
http://www.psfk.com/2014/05/applebees-private-chat-app.html#!M99ND A new app was released that allows anyone inside an Applebee’s restaurant to anonymously chat with one another. “The app itself may seem a little ridiculous, but it points to the very real possibility of restaurants – or any establishment, for that matter – creating their own location-based social networks, which they can take advantage of by using it to send promotional messages or create in-store communities, and they can even throw in perks and incentives for members to join in.”
Molecular, Neural, Bacterial Networks Provide Security Insights
The robust defenses that yeast cells have evolved to protect themselves from environmental threats hold lessons that can be used to design computer networks and analyze how secure they are, say computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. Read More at: http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/05/molecular-neural-bacterial-networks-provide-security-insights
General McChrystal explains why information needs to be freely shared in this TED Talk
General Stanley McChrystal makes a case for sharing knowledge beyond the traditional need-to-know model and talks about the benefits of information dissemination. In his explanation of the significant culture shift from “who needs to know” to “who doesn’t know, and we need to tell, and tell them as quickly as we can” you can see the need for mapping knowledge networks and communication networks and understanding the connections between them. http://www.ted.com/talks/
The U.S. Launched Dozens Of Social Networks Abroad To Promote Democracy
In the wake of the Arab Spring, the US sponsers social media to secure democratic change. http://thinkprogress.
Social-Networking Technology Unlocks Mystery of Chimp Civil War
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/social-networking-technology-unlocks-mystery-chimp-civil-war-n103206 Notes of the Chimpanzees were taken over a four year period. The alpha male had died and some of the chimps followed a male named Humphrey, in the North. Others followed two brothers, Hugh and Charlie, in the South. One of the software pieces that helped figure out the social ties between chimps was UCINET. It showed that the chips decided who to stay with based upon the amount of time they had spent together before the alpha male, Leakey, passed away.
Managed Practice Networks Prove Effective in Preventing Heart Disease Mortality
In the United Kingdom, Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust allocated their 34 local practices into 8 geographical networks, equipped with a network manager, administrative assistant, and an educational budget to deliver care packages for diabetes, childhood immunization, chronic obstructive lung disease, and cardiovascular disease. Tower Hamlets PCT outpaced England and surrounding PCTs in the coming years in reducing deaths due to cardiovascular disease and increasing the amount of cholesterol prescriptions.
The gponline article can be found at: http://www.gponline.com/local-gp-practice-networks-save-lives-boost-qof-scores-study-finds/cardiovascular-system/myocardial-infarction-left-ventricular-dysfunction/article/1293427
The British Journal of General Practice paper can be found at: http://bjgp.org/content/64/622/e268.full.pdf+html