Congratulations to Jed Brubaker on his Advancement!
Congratulations to Jed Brubaker on advancing to Ph.D. candidacy on February 29, 2012. Jed presented his work on Identity, Post-mortem social networking, and a framework for social, spatial, and temporal expansions on social networking sites. Jed’s committee was comprised of Drs. Gillian Hayes, Melissa Mazmanian, Paul Dourish, Geoffrey Bowker, and Martha Feldman. Congratulations!
Lucas Kam awarded UCI Undergraduate “Outstanding Contribution for Research” award
Congratulations to Lucas Kam for being awarded the UCI undergraduate award of “Outstanding Contribution to Research”. Kam has done research with a variety of graduate students, including working Jed Brubaker and his social media and identity projects and Lynn Dombrowski and her backyard bounty project. Again, congratulations to Lucas Kam!
Death and the Social Network
The death of a user does not result in the elimination of his or her account nor the profile’s place inside a network of digital peers. Friends use profiles postmortem to say last goodbyes, share memories, and coordinate funereal arrangements. These practices highlight three important themes for social networks and the representation of identity for their users: embodiment, representation, and temporality.
RSA Panel on Social Networking and Security
After a fun skit-filled panel discussion on social networking, Gen Y, and security in the workplace, a few different news outlets have added some colorful commentary of their own.
Paper accepted to the CHI workshop on HCI at the End of Life
Congratulations to Jed Brubaker and Janet Vertesi on the acceptance of their paper on death and social networking sites to the CHI 2010 workshop HCI at the End of Life. Death and the Social Network Jed R. Brubaker & Janet Vertesi We analyze profiles and associated comments on social network sites following the death of […]
Publications Backup
Some Recent STAR Publications For full lists of publications, please consult the CVs and web pages of the individual researchers. 2016 “Firebird: Predicting Fire Risk and Prioritizing Fire Inspections in Atlanta,” received a Best Student Paper Runner Up (Applied Data Science Track) award at 2016 ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Kathryn […]
Gillian interviewed on Privacy Piracy
Listen to the KUCI radio interview with Gillian Hayes.