Talk:Social Media Lab

I am completing this page as part of a school project. We are to create a new wikipedia page about a topic having to do with Social Media. Over the next month I will be improving and changing this page until its complete. We hope to give a short background to the lab itself, give brief bios of the prominent professors that work and have contributed to the lab, and detailed descriptions and links to past studies/findings that have been produced by the lab. (Jlazoff (talk) 17:30, 21 September 2011 (UTC))

Observer --Lenwomp (talk) 18:06, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Observer --atd42 (talk) 18:50, 22 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.249.202.65 (talk)

Suggested Revisions
Hey guys, I think the page looks really good so far! I don't know if you were already planning on doing this but I know Jeff and Jeremy got a lot of coverage for coining the phrase "butler lies", and that's been a pretty big thing to come out of the lab so maybe you could consider expanding their sections to include that kind of thing? (i.e. the New York Times article about it - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/fashion/lying-adapts-to-new-technology.html) - Circumloquent (talk) 20:55, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Edits
The most recent updates have been largely based on the content that is contained on the Social Media Lab's website. We added a section of the active professors. Each of the three professors has a section describing the nature of their research interests. We also added some more information to the overall description of the lab. The last edit we made for our page was adding an info-box.

Jwormser (talk) 01:06, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Observing
Overall, a really great start to the creation of this article. The first paragraph definitely gives us as readers a really great start to understand what the Social Media is all about. I also think that talking about some of the most influential professors involved with the lab is a great idea and certainly very important to the article. I think maybe a bit more in-depth commentary on what each professor focuses on could be useful.

Dwc86 (talk) 01:14, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Observing
Hi guys! The page looks really good so far! As the other observers have noted, I think more insight into the research of these professors and a discussion of the results of some of their experiments would be useful. Personally, I did research for Natalie for a couple of semesters and I know one of our papers was published, and I'm sure the same is true for Professors Birnholtz and Hancock. It could be interesting to link to these articles if they're online, or even just mention some of the journals that our lab has been published in. Jlynn21 (talk) 16:33, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Observing
Hey- this looks good, and it's impressive that it hasn't been speedy deleted or anything like that. I would suggest going back and looking at the first section again- there are a few grammatical errors that I noticed, such as "the lab being one of..." which make it a little harder to follow. Also, the first section could be split up a bit, have the first intro part be just one sentence, then take some of it out and put it under a heading of "about the lab" or "project currently in development" instead of having it all in that one (or two) paragraphs before the headings begin. Other than that looks great! stc62 (talk) 12:59, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Observing
The descriptions of the professors are good. It'd be nice to have a sufficient section about their research and how it relates to online communities. I know it's a work in progress. --Lenwomp (talk) 17:19, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Adding Research Section for each Professor + Things to add/change
Hancock:

Most of his research focuses on new methods of communication, such as the internet and instant communication. How they change the way we lie, laugh, and love. Most of what he's found is counter intuitive to the internet as a emotionless plane and more like the comfortable fluid feel of speaking with someone face to face.

Examples:

One of Hancocks studies found that we tend to lie more on telephone calls or face to face, than email or instant message. The difference in the two is that telephone calls have a feedback loop which allows the lier to change his story by gauging a response. If he feels he needs to give more details or focus on another part of the story to make it more believable he can. Quite the opposite from text messages and email since you can not only not see if the lie was successful but there is a permanent transcript for future reference as proof of the lie.

Another of Hancocks studies focuses on online video games and instant messages. It shows that the emoticons and abbreviations fulfill a important purpose. They are a way of being polite in the internet and show respect and value to others in the online community. This is a natural transformation of the medium as we become better at text communication and we adapt to make the text more emotionally dense. This agrees with the new Social Information Processing theory which suggests that people can learn to communication via any medium, given enough experience.

Links:

http://www.cis.cornell.edu/hancock.html http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov06/SS.Hancock.html

Jeremy Birnholtz

Research:

Most of his research done at the Social Media Lab revolve around "Collaboration". Collaborations have many dimensions, from a 2 minute joint group to a multi-year initiative. The difficulty of the task can also vary from something simple to complex, such as sequencing the human genome.

His research has focused on the conditions under which collaboration occurs, the nature of collaboration in distributed organizations, and how to betteer support the users in the workgroup.

Links: http://birnholtz.hci.cornell.edu/ninterests.html

Natalie Bazarova

Research:

One of her research papers focuses on intimacy and the differences between face-to-face and computer mediated interactions. The participants in the study were randomly assigned to a face-to-face or computer mediated interaction, the confederate made either high or low intimacy self disclosures. The results showed that the computer-mediated interaction amplified the intimacy. This amplification was due to the an increase in interpersonal attributions observed in the computer condition.

Another of her research papers focuses on trust and liking for partners in virtual groups. This research identifies a set of communication fules for the virtual groups. Through self reporting, 6 rules were assessed and the results reveal correlation between the tules and how much that person is trusted. The results show that either powerful rules have been identifies, or that rule following reduces uncertainty and enhances trust in the work teams.

Links: http://www.mendeley.com/research/disclosureintimacy-link-computermediated-communication-attributional-extension-hyperpersonal-model/ http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1042798

Add/Change:

Hancock - butler lies

Make the text more fluid

Grammatical or spelling mistakes

Categories and Organization of Wikipage

Linking to the professors home pages?

Add more Research?

History of Social Media Lab?

(Jlazoff (talk) 22:29, 3 October 2011 (UTC))

The article associated with this talk page has been merged with Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, since it does not appear to merit a stand-alone article. Editors are welcome to continue to contribute content related to the Social Media Lab there. If you wish to experiment with wiki syntax, please do so in either the community sandbox or in a private one. Below are some links that may also be helpful for new editors.


 * Starting an article
 * Your first article
 * Biographies of living persons
 * How to write a great article
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Help pages
 * Help:Editing
 * Tutorial
 * What Wikipedia is not

Regards —Eustress talk 23:17, 3 October 2011 (UTC)