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New Study Aims to Help Organizations Through Environmental Disasters
As communities devastated by Hurricane Ian begin the arduous task of rebuilding after Hurricane Ian, a new study published in the Journal of Communication outlines the role that communication plays in developing and maintaining resilience in and across organizations...
Social Networks Are Critical for Nonprofit Organizations’ Recovery, Study Finds
Nonprofit organizations whose employees were able to utilize their social networks in addition to traditional work-related communication were better prepared to serve vulnerable clients immediately after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, according to a recently published...
Organizing Resilience: The Push-Pull Relationship Between Employers and Workers
People are resilient because, in part, they continue to work. In a way, the responsibilities they have at work “pull them through” the crisis. Likewise, by working, businesses and organizations are resilient because the workers, by continuing to do their jobs, “push...
News Transformation
Doctoral student Allie Kosterich and Dr. Matthew Weber are leading the research initiative to examine the transformation of the news media industry in reaction to the development of digital communication technologies. Specifically, this includes a large-scale longitudinal study examining strategies employed by media organizations for disseminating news and information in online networks…
The Emergence of Resource Networks in Response to Disasters
PI: Dr. Marya Doerfel, co-PI: Dr. Matthew Weber Introduction As the leader or owner of your business/organization, we are seeking information about the organization-level communication activities your organization has been engaging in since Superstorm Sandy. Before…
Hurricane Katrina and Organizational Social Networks
PI: Dr. Marya Doerfel The Katrina Project is a longitudinal study of New Orleans business and organization social networks. In this project we use in depth interviews and online surveys to gather data that help build an understanding of business, organization, and…
BCC-SBE Collaborative Research: Using Archival Resources to Conduct Data-Intensive Internet Research
PI: Dr. Matthew Weber, Co-PIs: Dr. David Lazer (Northeastern University), Kris Carpenter (Internet Archive) The BCC-SBE Collaborative Research Project, “Using Archival Resources to Conduct Data-Intensive Internet Research,” has three goals: (1) to build a community of…
Followers Are Not Enough: Beyond Structural Communities in Online Social Networks
Community detection in online social networks is typically based on the analysis of the explicit connections between users, such as “friends” on Facebook and “followers” on Twitter. But online users often have hundreds or even thousands of such connections, and many…
Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data
BIG data is suddenly everywhere. Everyone seems to be collecting it, analyzing it, making money from it and celebrating (or fearing) its powers. Whether we’re talking about analyzing zillions of Google search queries to predict flu outbreaks, or zillions of phone…
SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) – Sep 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada
Call for Submissions: Papers (extended abstracts), Panels and Posters 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) September 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada Conference website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ KEYNOTE: Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University…