{"id":11836,"date":"2016-11-07T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/?p=11836"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:01:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:01:56","slug":"social-media-lab-students-win-social-informatics-best-student-paper-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2016\/11\/07\/social-media-lab-students-win-social-informatics-best-student-paper-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Lab Students win Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media Lab doctoral students, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_sgilbert_\">Sarah Gilbert<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewpaulin\">Drew Paulin<\/a>\u00a0were awarded the Social Informatics <a href=\"https:\/\/asistsigsi.wordpress.com\/awards\/\">Best Student Paper<\/a>\u00a0award at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asist.org\/2016\/09\/30\/annual-meeting-higher-ed-career-networking\/\">2016 Annual Meeting of ASIS&amp;T (<\/a>Association for Information Science and Technology) annual meeting for their paper, \u201c<em>Tweet to learn: Expertise and centrality in conference Twitter networks<\/em>.\u201d The award is given to the best paper written by a doctoral student on a topic informed by social informatics.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah and Drew\u2019s award winning <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7070042\/?tp=&amp;arnumber=7070042&amp;queryText%3Dacademic%20positions\">paper was originally presented<\/a> at the 2015 Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences. Drawing from learning theories such as networked learning, connectivism, and social constructivism, they used social network analyses to explore how the positions experts\u2019 occupy in a conference allow them to share knowledge. Using the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference held in 2014 as a case study, the authors identified subject-specific and general experts in the network and found that their highly central positions allow them to make impactful contributions to the conference Twitter network.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The paper is part of\u00a0the initiative on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/research-old\/academia-projects\/learning-analytics-for-the-social-media-age\/\">Learning Analytics in the Social Media Age,<\/a> a five year (2013-2018) research initiative funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), aimed at understanding how online social networks influence educational models. The initiative is led by Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada and Dr. Caroline Haythornthwaite at Syracuse University, USA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media Lab doctoral students, Sarah Gilbert\u00a0and Drew Paulin\u00a0were awarded the Social Informatics Best Student Paper\u00a0award at the 2016 Annual Meeting of ASIS&amp;T (Association for Information Science and Technology) annual meeting for their paper, \u201cTweet to learn: Expertise and centrality in conference Twitter networks.\u201d The award is given to the best paper written by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":11850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[335,421,341,420],"class_list":["post-11836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-plasma","tag-assist","tag-award","tag-social-informatics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11836"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21080,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions\/21080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}