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  • July 17, 2010
  • 07:40 AM
  • 93 views

Running experiments on Twitter? Don’t forget the bug

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There's nothing that error analysis wouldn't fix. But I prefer to sit here and ponder the epistemological ramifications of the way bugs are impacting the traditional way we make science...... Read more »

Scott A. Golder and Sarita Yardi. (2010) Structural Predictors of Tie Formation in Twitter: Transitivity and Mutuality. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. August 20-22, Minneapolis, MN. info:/

  • May 1, 2010
  • 06:33 AM
  • 177 views

« An Ethnographic Seduction »: our article published on the Bulletin of Sociological Methodology

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So here it is, our little « manifesto for qualitative agent-based simulation » is finally out on the now Sage-published Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique. It is just worth stressing the importance of this article in our present research: our effort has been to really provide a comprehensive framework for underdestanding what it means to [...]... Read more »

  • March 17, 2010
  • 04:47 AM
  • 239 views

Entre « effets de petit monde » et émiettement communautaire: la légitimation culturelle à l’heure de Facebook

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par Antonio A. CASILLI (Centre Edgar-Morin, EHESS) [1]
Le texte qui suit a été présenté aux Journées d’études Les réseaux sociaux: Quoi de neuf ?, qui ont eu lieu à l’université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 16-17 mars 2010, dans le cadre des activités du Réseau Thématique 26 de l’Association Française de Sociologie.
La communication (ici en [...]... Read more »

Antonio A. Casilli . (2010) Légitimation intersubjective de la présence en ligne et formation de réseaux sociaux : Une approche ethno-computationnelle. II Journées d'études du RT 26 (Réseaux sociaux) de l'Association Française de Sociologie "Les réseaux sociaux: quoi de neuf ?", 16-17 mars, Université de Toulouse II - Le Mirail. info:/

  • March 7, 2010
  • 11:01 AM
  • 278 views

The sociology of Chatroulette

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by Antonio A. Casilli (Centre Edgar-Morin, Paris) [1]
By now, you might have heard about Chatroulette, if you are hip and tech-savvy if those two things at the sides of your face are your ears. By the way, I hope you did not click on the link. It’s not safe for work. And by that I [...]... Read more »

Peter M. Todd. (1997) Searching for the next best mate. In R. Conte, R. Hegselmann, and P. Terna (Eds.) Simulating social phenomena, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 419-436. info:/

  • December 20, 2009
  • 04:46 PM
  • 336 views

« How come it’s BLUE? » The origins of James Cameron’s Avatar

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Superheroes, virtual worlds and hindu gods: a visual genealogy of James Cameron's Avatar - based on my article "Les Avatars Bleus" (Communications, 2005). For those who don't speak French. Also, for those who simply can't be bothered to go through 30 pages of socio-babbling ;) ... Read more »

Antonio A. Casilli. (2005) [Blue Avatars, about three strategies of cultural borrowing at the heart of computer culture] Les avatars bleus, Autour de trois stratégies d’emprunt culturel au cœur de la cyberculture. Communications, 77(1), 183-209. info:/

  • November 2, 2009
  • 02:30 AM
  • 337 views

Love – the Swiss way: sociologists want to “optimize the marriage market” (eng)

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The current state of marriages is well below the social optimum, Swiss sociologists say. So they come up with a mathematical model to "reallocate partners" more efficiently via a shadowy "central agency". Next thing you know, divorces are reduced by 21%, mixed couples become illegal and right-wing nuts triumph...... Read more »

Cao, N., Fragnière, E., Gauthier, J., Sapin, M., & Widmer, E. (2010) Optimizing the marriage market: An application of the linear assignment model. European Journal of Operational Research, 202(2), 547-553. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.009  

  • July 8, 2009
  • 02:51 AM
  • 616 views

A crazy idea everybody’s having: using Wikipedia for health information (eng)

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Laurent, M., & Vickers, T. (2009). Seeking Health Information Online: Does Wikipedia Matter? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16 (4), 471-479 DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3059

Back in the day, patients used to show up at doctors’ practices with a set of symptoms. Since the advent of the Internet, though, they show up with a set of [...]... Read more »

Laurent, M., & Vickers, T. (2009) Seeking Health Information Online: Does Wikipedia Matter?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16(4), 471-479. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3059  

  • June 27, 2009
  • 01:33 PM
  • 737 views

Internet use among the poor: it’s not funny and it doesn’t mitigate inequalities (eng)

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Robinson, L. (2009). A taste for the necessary. A Bourdieuian approach to digital inequality Information, Communication & Society, 12 (4), 488-507 DOI: 10.1080/13691180902857678

The “Diversity” issue of the journal Information, Communication and Society is out and it’s entirely devoted to the Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA). Laura Robinson’s remarkable article explores digital inequality among ........ Read more »

  • June 11, 2009
  • 02:50 AM
  • 617 views

New paper shows social connectivity is not declining (not because of Internet, anyway) (eng)

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Hua (Helen) Wang, & Barry Wellman (2009). Social Connectivity in America. Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size from 2002 to 2007 American Behavioral Scientist



The story so far, can be summarized as follows: since the beginning of the Web, a significant amount of researches has being focusing on the inverse correlation between online connectivity and [...]... Read more »

  • May 4, 2009
  • 01:27 AM
  • 740 views

How to avoid common mistakes in agent-based model visualization (eng)

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Pretty interesting article just published in JASSS. If you happen to be involved in agent-based simulation design, you know how bad your model can be screwed up by poor visualization. Here are some guidelines you might find useful.

Visualizations are not only important for communicating your results to an audience (wether it is made of fellow-scientists [...]... Read more »

Kornhauser, Daniel and Wilensky, Uri and Rand, William. (2009) Design Guidelines for Agent Based Model Visualization. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 12(2). DOI: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html  

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