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...
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...
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...
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...
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...