Social Traces: sociological topographies for enhancing search, community and social science
Marc Smith a sociologist from Microsoft Research
The overwhelming majority of data objects are, in nature, relational. They are often from one person to another. As they travel from place to place, these digital messages leave traces. Like footprints on an ocean beach, these traces tell stories about people. Given these traces, Marc is interested in collecting these traces and discerning those stories/patterns/etc…
Today, Marc gave a grabbag talk about all of this and some more, too: (more…)
