Dhiraj Murthy
Dhiraj Murthy is a Professor of Journalism and Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He was previously Reader of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research explores social media, digital research methods, race/ethnicity, qualitative/mixed methods, big data quantitative analysis, and virtual organizations. Dr. Murthy has authored over 70 articles, book chapters, and papers and a book about Twitter, the first on the subject (published by Polity Press, 2013 and fully revised in 2018). He was been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and various international/national grants. Dr. Murthy founded and directs the Computational Media Lab at UT Austin.
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In this timely and comprehensive introduction, Murthy not only discusses Twitter’s role in our political, economic, and social lives, but also draws a historical line between the telegraph and Twitter to reflect on changes in social communication over time. The book thoughtfully examines Twitter as an emergent global communications medium and provides a theoretical framework for students, scholars, and tweeters to reflect critically on the impact of Twitter and the contemporary media environment. The book uses case studies including citizen journalism, health, and national disasters to provide empirically rich insights and to help decipher some of the ways in which Twitter and social media more broadly may be shaping contemporary life.
65 work-in-progress papers, 8 workshops, 4 panels, and 34 posters. The Proceedings features 24 full papers grouped into five broad categories: Politics, Visual(izing) Social Media, Business, Places & Spaces, and Online & Offline Communities.
functionalities thought to be missing from commonly available data extraction toolkits. The authors conclude the chapter with a case study and subsequent evaluation of the VoyeurServer system itself. This evaluation presents future directions, remaining challenges, and additional extensions thought to be important to the effective development of data mining tools for the study of online social networks.
emotional content of nearly 700,000 users provides evidence
that corporations need to have review procedures in terms of
ethics that universities of been developing for some years surrounding social media research. In a university context, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are responsible for monitoring the ethics of any research conducted at the University. The US government’s Department of Health and Human Services publishes very detailed guidance for human subjects research. Section 2(a) of their IRB guidelines states that “for the IRB to approve research […] criteria include, among other things […] risks, potential benefits, informed consent, and safeguards for human subjects”. Most IRB’s take this mission quite seriously and err on the side of caution as people’s welfare is at stake.