Social Media Workshop in Berlin

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Social Media Workshop: Scientific Research from Brain to Behavior is an interdisciplinary workshop on social media research, organized by Dar Meshi and Fenne große Deters hosted at the Freie Universität Berlin. This year was a mix of intriguing talks from psychology, communication science, and social neuroscience. The workshop was excellent, with friendly atmosphere, and plenty of opportunities to discuss current research.

Sonja Utz presented ReDefTie and some insights from our longitudinal data. The talk was followed by an interesting and lively discussion. Ana presented a poster with some descriptive data from the Ambient Awareness study. The slides and poster are available under Presentations.

(photos via @nicolemuscanell)

 

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International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2014

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ICWSM 2014 took place at the University of Michigan, in sunny Ann Arbor, with chairs Eytan Adar @eytanadar and Paul Resnick @presnick. For me and quite a few others, this was a first time at this conference, so I would like to share some general impressions (for a more complete overview see the conference website and preface).

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Longitudinal study, wave 2: Facebook users read more and post less; motivations for twitter usage change

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2678 respondents participated in the second wave of the longitudinal study. Social media use in general has not changed much. Most popular were still social network sites for private use (73.1%), followed by social media for business, such as Linkedin (24%). Only 14.8% engaged in microblogging.

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PhD position available

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The announcement for the second PhD position is out! We are looking for someone with a (research) master in social or media psychology, communication science or a related discipline who is going to examine the emotional benefits of social media use.
More information on the procedure http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/stellenangebote/anzeige.html?kind=wissenschaftlich&dispname=Stellen#ausschreibung1042

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Social media use and social support – lessons learned from ICA

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We are not the only research group interested in the effects of social media use on social capital, that is, the emotional and informational benefits people can get from their social networks. Many talks at the ICA, the conference of the International Communication Association (June 17 – 31, 2013) focused on social media (see here and several focused more specifically on the relationships between Facebook use and social support. What did they find? Continue reading →

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Welcome!

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Welcome to the website of the ERC starting grant project Redefining tie strength: How social media (can) help us to get non-redundant information and emotional support.

On these pages, you will find background information about the project and the team, and we will post our presentations and publications. On the main page, you’ll find up-to-date information about the current status of the project.

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