UF Social Media Scholars

all about building social capital ... an initiative of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, Kennedy School of Government

Research on whether online social networks affect social capital

Manhattan is the capital of people living by themselves. But are New Yorkers lonelier? Far from it, say a new breed of loneliness researchers, who argue that urban alienation is largely a myth.

Interview with Robert Putnam on Bowling Alone and Social Capital.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Social Capital, from the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America.

Primer on social capital, what it is and how it works from The Saguaro Seminar, a special seminar at Harvard.

Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century.

"This course is taught at the University of Florida in the College of Journalism and Communications. It is open to any UF student who has completed JOU3101 or RTV3303 with a grade of C or better. You will find it listed under Journalism with the course number JOU4341."

2004 article on how Dean used the Internet in the 2004 POTUS election.

CEO of Meetup.com on GMA in 2006.

CommonCraft video on Meetup.com ... same simple "Plain English" formula describes meetup.com

Christian Crumlish describes the themes in his book, "the Power of Many," a 2004 look at social web topics. Of particular interest are his thoughts on the use of the Web and social media in the Dean Campaign of 2004.

"In a sweeping ruling with little precedent in the eight-year history of Wikipedia, the committee blocked editing from "all I.P. addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates, broadly interpreted." The ruling did allow users from those addresses to appeal to be reinstated on a case-by-case basis."

srsly.

This was totally hilarious.

Social networks typically promise to remove "personally identifying information" before sharing this data, to protect users' privacy. But researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have found that, combined with readily available data from other online sources, this anonymized data can still reveal sensitive information about users.

newsweek overview of facebook

upcoming social network - collaboration tool for teachers

Fall 2007 course at Cornell - via O'Reilly blog

Amy Gahran talks about steps to keep online communities civil and contributing

from Chris Sessums Blog :: Notes from the Creating and Connecting Report