TY - GEN
T1 - Towards building a social computing tool for social scientists
AU - Kumar, Shamanth
AU - Agarwal, Nitin
AU - Liu, Huan
PY - 2010/10/28
Y1 - 2010/10/28
N2 - This paper presents a social computing tool that centers around social scientists. In the past years, we have worked with social scientists and cultural anthropologists. We learned their ways of studying subjects in social media, what their needs are, and their interests. In the process, we have built a generic platform for collecting data in blogosphere, tracking blogs of particular interests, and facilitating comparative data analysis. We report our progress in building and expanding this socialscientist- centered social computing tool. We show how we are inspired by the research of social scientists in our effort to build the platform - BlogTrackers, which can help identify key topics of discussion, identify influential bloggers, track topics over time, and search blogs. These features can help social scientists to quickly analyze both blogs and bloggers at a scale, which is otherwise impossible through manual investigation.
AB - This paper presents a social computing tool that centers around social scientists. In the past years, we have worked with social scientists and cultural anthropologists. We learned their ways of studying subjects in social media, what their needs are, and their interests. In the process, we have built a generic platform for collecting data in blogosphere, tracking blogs of particular interests, and facilitating comparative data analysis. We report our progress in building and expanding this socialscientist- centered social computing tool. We show how we are inspired by the research of social scientists in our effort to build the platform - BlogTrackers, which can help identify key topics of discussion, identify influential bloggers, track topics over time, and search blogs. These features can help social scientists to quickly analyze both blogs and bloggers at a scale, which is otherwise impossible through manual investigation.
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U2 - 10.1109/HUMANCOM.2010.5563334
DO - 10.1109/HUMANCOM.2010.5563334
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77958192623
SN - 9781424475704
T3 - 2010 3rd International Conference on Human-Centric Computing, HumanCom 2010
BT - 2010 3rd International Conference on Human-Centric Computing, HumanCom 2010
T2 - 2010 3rd International Conference on Human-Centric Computing, HumanCom 2010
Y2 - 11 August 2010 through 13 August 2010
ER -