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Mind the Climate
[cross-posted: Mind the Gap] Changing the way we look at climate change. I want you to, for a second, forget about the extreme weather, the rising tides, biodiversity loss and ocean acidification....
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Chained to Technology? Nine Things we Need.
Last week I moved across the atlantic. When I arrived at my college the porter gave me my keys and an old yellow phone (you know those landlines that clearly were once white…) I had to cough a laugh...
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The Future of Television?
If you are like most people, you have had those moments where you cannot focus any longer. You just need a break. If you are like me, that break regularly includes checking up on Facebook and Twitter....
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Pin Down That Pinterest Fitness Routine
We are all there; that post-Olympic I-know-I-should-be-active vibe is everywhere. Having recently added Pintrest to my repertoire of online social networking sites at the pleading of the same friends...
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#TellVicEverything and effective political talk
Just over a year ago the hashtag #TellVicEverything took the Canadian political Twittersphere by storm. It was a comedic response to Bill C-30 which was officially dropped from the government’s agenda...
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Op-Ed: Liberals’ supporters might not be voters (Ottawa Citizen)
In my first piece for the Ottawa Citizen I analyze Twitter conversations about the Liberal Party of Canada’s leadership race. ‘With registration to vote for the Liberal party’s next leader now closed,...
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If public opinion polls don’t matter, whose opinion does?
The argument is, in Canadian democracy every single vote matters, every voice counts. As an extension, public opinion matters. Now, I am a big fan of voting. I believe that every citizen has a...
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The best and worst of social media: Liberal leadership candidates.
Social media may feel pretty mundane for those of us who have more sets of log-in credentials than fingers and toes, but in the political game a lot of these tools are still very new. Social media...
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Digital Oxford
On May 4, 2013 I participated in a day long forum which kicks off the University of Oxford’s campaign to become digital – or at least to have some sort of vision for integrating digital technology into...
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The Post-it Note Journal Article: Crafting an Academic Argument
So you’ve hit the wall. That spot where you have enough information that you should be able to write but you sit at your computer and every key you tap is futile. Your words are useless. Your brain is...
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Research Update 1: Transfer Successful!
At Oxford the first big milestone of the PhD process is called the “Transfer of Status.” When you start your PhD, called a DPhil here, you enter as a “Probationary Research Student” and are required to...
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The New Opinion Leader? [Presentation, Dalhousie Social Media Lab]
In a hybrid media environment academics and practitioners alike are questioning the role of the politician, the journalist, and the activist. In my research, I suggest there is another important...
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Despite dark overtones, Big Data a bonus to all [Op-Ed: the Chronicle Herald]
After attending a week long visual analytics summer school at the Dalhousie Computer Science Department where I attended the launch of their new ‘Institute for Big Data Analytics,’ I started thinking...
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A lovers’ quarrel: Google and I (also, a lot of data).
Travelling? Why yes I am Google – you remembered! Two days ago I got on a plane in Halifax and landed in NYC. Three days ago I got this email: At first I was creeped out. About as creeped out as I was...
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Who is #NSpoli? [Social Media Lab blog]
Originally posted to the Social Media Lab blog. As the next Nova Scotia provincial election draws near, candidates from all political parties are cranking up their advertising and PR machines to engage...
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Identifying Opinion Leaders: Influence, Twitter, and Canadian Politics...
We know how to find politicians and journalists online – in a Twitter network they are often the most central accounts. They are visible, they have a mass following of people they have never met and...
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#NSpoli, partisans patting themselves on the back?
[See full post on the Social Media Lab blog.] When we think about tracking political discussion on Twitter, inevitably two questions come up. Who is talking? And what are they talking about? In our...
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Alter the media! We found the journalists! [Social Media Lab blog]
Originally posted to the Social Media Lab blog. Where in the world is… It has taken an entire election campaign, but it looks like NS journalists are finally joining the online discussion about the...
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Research Update 2: Summer at the Social Media Lab
From being cited in an Anonymous press release and speaking live on Sun TV, to attending my first slue of conferences and giving my first public lecture, this summer certainly has been full of...
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The Influence of the Citizen: Government, Traditional Media and the Internet
On December 5, 2013 I gave a lecture via Skype to students at Dalhousie University’s School of Information Management. We examined the role of technology in government and governance with a specific...
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