Category Archives: Research
Learning the Lingo goes to CSCW
Written on October 29, 2011 at 9:00 am, by libbyh
Jahna Otterbacher and I will be headed to CSCW in February to present our paper - Learning the Lingo? Gender, Prestige and Linguistic Adaptation in Review Communities. Our findings suggest that women do participate in online communities but that their contributions get buried and stay mostly invisible. See the Room for Debate feature Where are the Women Read more...
Public Officials on Social Media Project goes to Korea
Written on October 28, 2011 at 3:29 pm, by libbyh
Matt Shapiro is presenting our paper – Going “Bald on Record”: Relationships Among Public Officials’ Social Media Behavior and Language Use – at this week’s Korean Association for Public Administration and American Society for Public Administration Joint International Conference. Can’t make it to Korea for the talk? Read the abstract after the jump. Jahna Otterbacher Read more...
Lots of “debt” and very few “leaders”
Written on October 18, 2011 at 5:16 pm, by libbyh
Wonder what those politicians are spending all that time on Twitter talking about? Well, here’s what they were talking about over the summer: Data for this Wordle came from tweets between June and August from the 389 members of Congress whose Twitter accounts I could verify.
Chicago Politicians on Twitter
Written on October 15, 2011 at 11:49 am, by libbyh
Many of Chicago’s Aldermen, and certainly the Mayor, have adopted Twitter. Using all the tweets they posted, and all those posted by others who mentioned them, I was able to make the following graph of Chicago’s politicians on Twitter. In this image, orange discs are Mayor Emanuel’s two Twitter accounts, blue discs are Aldermen’s accounts, Read more...
Qualitative Data Analysis Using Office
Written on September 27, 2011 at 5:45 pm, by libbyh
It seems every time I embark on the qualitative data analysis (QDA) stage of a project, I get frustrated by QDA software. My approach to data analysis is iterative and collaborative. Existing QDA makes both of those approaches obscenely difficult (if possible at all). Hence my frustration. I want to be able to edit transcripts Read more...