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Social and Information Networks

Understanding the intersection between social networks and information networks

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Detecting, Characterizing, Tracking and Forecasting Rare Events in Multi-Sourced Networks: An Application in Analyzing Isolated Malicious Activities

Time frame
2019-2020
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$163,145.00
Funding agency
Arizona State University

This project targets the challenging problem of combating diverse Isolated, Malicious Activities (IMAs), or "lone wolf" attacks, such as homegrown violent extremist attacks. Although IMAs seem completely isolated from one another, without outside direction or communication, IMAs share some common traits when examined under the proper lens (e.g., from the right/relevant data sources, in the…

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III: Small: Predictive Analysis of Diabetes Dedicated Social Networks

Time frame
2019-Present
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$448,049.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

This project will study diabetes dedicated social networks. It aims to harness diabetes patients' online social behaviors from multiple networks to predict their biomarker measurements such as glycated hemoglobin and fasting blood glucose. This project will provide a paradigm shift from exploration to prediction compared with state-of-the-art research on diabetes dedicated social networks,…

diabetes

Information Forum Requirements to Promote Knowledge Capture, Knowledge Sharing, and Community Interaction on the VHA Data Portal

Time frame
2014-2020
Investigators
Catherine Blake, Michael Twidale
Total funding to date
$162,953.00
Funding agency
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

iSchool faculty members Catherine Blake and Michael Twidale are working as expert advisors to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Information Resource Center (VIReC) on a project to analyze the socio-technical aspects of VA’s HSRData-L Listserv. VIReC is a VA Health Service Research & Development Service (HSR&D) resource center that supports VA researchers in need of information…

News Stories

Six from GSLIS present at Computational Social Science Workshop

Several members of the GSLIS community participated in the 2016 Computational Social Science Workshop at Illinois. Hosted by the University Library Scholarly Commons and The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS), the workshop was held at the I Hotel and Conference Center on January 30. Presentations and hands-on sessions by speakers representing an array of…

Cunningham presents at History of Education Society meeting

Doctoral student Paige Cunningham will speak at the annual meeting of the History of Education Society, an international organization that encourages teaching of and research in the history of education. The group’s 2015 meeting will be held November 5-8 in St. Louis. Cunningham will present her paper titled, “Learning from PLATO: Lessons in Online Community Building” on November 6. Abstract…

Diesner presents at International Conference on Web and Social Media

Assistant Professor Jana Diesner spoke at the ninth International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) on May 27. Hosted annually by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, ICWSM addresses themes in social and computational sciences related to human social behavior on the web. The 2015 conference was held May 26-29 at the University of Oxford.

Assistant Professor Jana Diesner

GSLIS research presented at HASTAC 2015

Several GSLIS affiliates presented this week at HASTAC 2015, the annual conference of the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. Held at Michigan State University May 28-29, HASTAC 2015 featured presentations relating to the theme, "Art and Science of Digital Humanities." GSLIS postdoctoral research associate Sayan Bhattacharyya presented an interactive session…

Twidale, Takazawa speak on social and collaborative information seeking

Professor Michael Twidale and doctoral candidate Aiko Takazawa spoke on May 14 at the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking hosted by the Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. The workshop brought together multidisciplinary scholars, including innovators in social and collaborative information seeking, with the goal of defining research challenges in the field.

Professor Michael Twidale

Open source maps aid relief efforts in Nepal

Illinois alumnus Nama Budhathoki recognized the need for better documentation of Nepal’s roads and resources before disaster struck there last month. The former GSLIS student and a small team of volunteers began mapping Nepal in 2013, after Budhathoki saw the importance of accurate maps following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010. "Navigation in Kathmandu [was…
One OpenStreetMap view displays medical units in the heart of Kathmandu. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Downie to deliver colloquium keynote, DH Month talk

J. Stephen Downie, professor and associate dean for research, will deliver the opening keynote address at an international colloquium titled, “Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research & Publication.” The colloquium is hosted jointly by the Virtual Humanities Lab in the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, the Center for Digital Scholarship in the…

Cooke speaks at Digital Sociology conference, publishes in LQ

GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke recently spoke at the Digital Sociology Mini-conference, which was held February 27-28 in New York. Her talk, "Combating Cultural Misinformation/Disinformation on the Internet," was presented as part of a panel discussion titled, "Race, Racism, and Digitally Mediated Spaces." The mini-conference was hosted by the Digital Laboratory Working Group of The…

Diesner to speak at Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium

Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will speak Saturday at the 2015 Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium. Cosponsored by GSLIS, the symposium will bring together graduate students, faculty, and researchers from across campus to discuss current work and methodologies in digital humanities. Registration is free and open to anyone. Diesner's talk, “Bringing Computational Social Science to the Real…