http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15308 2013-05-22T14:04:50Z 2013-05-22T14:04:50Z Dalhousie University http://hdl.handle.net/10222/16000 2013-02-21T20:48:28Z 2013-02-17T00:00:00Z

Profile of Anatoliy Gruzd Dalhousie University

2013-02-17T00:00:00Z Gruzd, Anatoliy Staves, Kathleen http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14427 2012-12-16T17:30:31Z 2011-01-04T00:00:00Z

Trends in Scholarly Use of Online Social Media Gruzd, Anatoliy; Staves, Kathleen As online social media sites rapidly become more mainstream, numerous studies have been conducted on how the public is using these technologies; however, there is still scant research into how scholars are using these technologies. To address this gap, we are conducting a comprehensive study to find out if, how, and why scholars are using social media for knowledge and information dissemination (KID). In this research, we address six main questions: 1) Why are scholars starting to rely on these new media? 2) What is the geographical reach of these media? 3) What is the actual adoption rate for these media among scholars? 4) What is the perceived, actual and potential utility of these media in the context of KID? 5) Do these media help to improve KID? 6) Do these media help or hinder the ability of researchers to publish or present their work in more traditional media such as journals and conferences? This position paper is a starting point in our research. This preliminary literature review will list some of the social media tools that have been adopted by scholars and how scholar are currently using them in their work.

2011-01-04T00:00:00Z Gruzd, Anatoliy Wong, J. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13010 2012-09-19T21:41:31Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blogging with CONTEXT: A context-aware information retrieval system for bloggers Gruzd, Anatoliy; Wong, J. The poster describes the development process and evaluation of a context-aware information retrieval system for blog authors, called CONTEXT. As a blogger writes a post, the system automatically retrieves and displays links to web resources (web sites, news stories, video, etc) that are relevant to the bogger’s entry. CONTEXT continuously monitors the blog post for new search keywords to find and display the most relevant resources to the blogger. The main goal of this system is to inform the blogger in real time of other related discussions that are going on in the blogosphere or elsewhere and give her/him a chance to be part of the ‘global’ conversation and thus improve his/her entry by incorporating some of the suggested resources into a post. Our expectation is that CONTEXT will lead to more interactive and content-rich blog entries, in which bloggers are not just expressing their own opinions, but they are also addressing each other and building on each other’s arguments.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Gruzd, Anatoliy Haythornthwaite, Caroline http://hdl.handle.net/10222/12834 2012-08-30T12:40:51Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Analysis of Online Communities using Interactive Content-based Social Networks Gruzd, Anatoliy; Haythornthwaite, Caroline Today the Internet has become a convenient and ubiquitous platform for anyone with access to publish their thoughts and ideas, express their opinions, argue with their peers on various issues and, most importantly, organize and form online communities. The majority of user-generated discussions on the Internet are still text-based. Many of these discussions are archived and readily available to organizers, developers and researchers of online communities. Being able to evaluate the internal processes of such communities is; however, as yet, there is still no easy or cost effective method to study and analyze this ever growing mountain of textual data in real-time. This paper describes a new, automated procedure and a prototype of our web application for making sense of online activities in real time.

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