Social Media — ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:44:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Jeff Hemsley /faculty-experts/jeff-hemsley/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:08:25 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=103924

Jeff Hemsley is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. He is co-author of the book (Polity Press, 2013 and winner of Ìý award and selected by magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014), which explains what virality is, how it works technologically and socially, and draws out the implications of this process for social change. You can see Jeff talk about researching viral events on . You can also see his .

He is a founding member of the here at the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ iSchool.

Jeff earned his Ph.D. from the , where he was a founding member of the . The lab received RAPID and INSPIRE awards from NSF, an Amazon Web Services in Education research grant award, and a gift from Microsoft Research. His research has appeared in journals like Policy & Internet, American Behavioral Scientist and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce.

His research focuses on understanding how people are using social media, how their use influences the flow of information, and how information mediates user’s interaction online. I draw on theories and concepts like information gatekeeping, personal influence, status, presentation of self, social capital and viral events. I use exploratory data analysis (data visualization techniques), inferential statistics, social network analysis and content analysis to answer my questions.

]]> Jennifer Grygiel /faculty-experts/jennifer-grygiel/ Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:53:20 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=103830 Jennifer Grygiel is a social media expert with up-to-the minute understanding of the technology. They most recently served as social business and emerging media manager and assistant vice president at State Street Corporation in Boston. There, Prof. Grygiel developed a social listening and marketing data and analytics program and was the lead project manager for the Social Intranet Project, which received an IABC Gold Quill Merit Award. Their social listening work has also been recognized and received a Gold Wommy for Social Media Monitoring Implementation from Womma (Word of Mouth Marketing Association).

Over the course of Prof. Grygiel’sÌýcareer, they have served as the executive director for public affairs and communications and chief of staff at the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the regulation of financial markets. Prof. Grygiel has also worked at the Program on International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School and is the founder of No Gay Left Behind, which advocates for the development of virtual gay-straight alliances (VGSAs) via social media.

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