Post Tagged with: "Social Media"

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  Instagram: A New Sociometer?

  Want to diagnose depression more effectively? Use Instagram.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Facebook’s Forewarning

  “Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.”
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Big Data: Old Skepticism About “The New Tape”

  Is twitter is the new tickertape?
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] To Foresee What Matters About Social Media 30 Years Before It Was Cool

  Big data measures the trends and changes in collective behavior. It sees social mood at work.
   
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  [Article] The Authoritarianism Battle: Governments Increase their Monitoring and Control of Citizens

  Discover which governments now lead the race to control digital information, and in turn their own citizens.
   
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  [Article] Did U C New Studies? Tweets N Blogs Predict Equity Prices!!

  Recently published and preliminary work from researchers at four universities indicate that trends in social mood as displayed in social media predict price moves in the stock market. The studies provide important further evidence of the socionomic hypothesis: that changes in states of unconscious social mood precede—because they motivate—changes in the stock market and other social events.
   
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  [Audio] Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market

  Indiana University Researchers Bollen and Mao to discuss their findings at the New Horizons Summit Bollen and Mao both come from engineering backgrounds; they were eager to obtain quantitative information on public mood, plain and simple. They set out to use their unique data mining tools to test a new […]

   
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  [Press] Twitter Mood Researchers Bollen and Mao Join Social Scientists at Inaugural Socionomics Summit

  GAINESVILLE, Ga. / March 25, 2011 – Dr. Johan Bollen and Huina Mao of “Twitter predicts the stock market” fame will address the 2011 Socionomics Summit on April 16 in Atlanta.
   
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  [Press] Inaugural Socionomics Summit Explores Why Groups Behave As They Do

  GAINESVILLE, Ga. / March 15, 2011 — The Socionomics Summit will feature a dozen speakers including five scientists whose work has captured the attention of the media.