Funda Kivran-Swaine's Blog
Of Balls and Ballots: Tapping Social Media for Political Perspective
November 3rd, 2010 / 4:24 pm
September 12, 2010, was a big day in Turkey. Not only did the Turkish men's basketball team play the FIBA world basketball cup finals against the United States, but, perhaps more importantly, it was the day when the country voted on a referendum to amend the Turkish constitution. As a Turkish citizen living in the U.S. I was, of course, highly interested in both events. In New
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Funda Kivran-Swaine
Doctoral Student
Graduate Assistant
Library and Information Science
Contact Info
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I'm in room 302, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and (sometimes) Fridays.
Education
BS, Sabanci University, Turkey, Computer Science and Engineering
MA, New York Institute of Technology, Communication Arts
Research

social media, natural language processing, sociolinguistics, human - computer interaction,visual communication, user interface design

Publications and Presentations

Funda Kivran-Swaine, Priya Govindan and Mor Naaman. The Impact of Network Structure on Breaking Ties in Online Social Networks: Unfollowing on Twitter. In proceedings, CHI 2011, May 2011.

Nicholas Diakopoulos, Funda Kivran-Swiane and Mor Naaman. Playable Data: Characterizing the Design Space of Game-y Infographics. In proceedings, CHI 2011, May 2011.

Funda Kivran-Swaine and Mor Naaman. Network Properties and Social Sharing of Emotions in Social Awareness Streams. In Proceedings, CSCW 2011, March 2011.

Nicholas Diakopoulos, Mor Naaman and Funda Kivran-Swaine. Diamonds in the Rough: Social Media Visual Analytics for Journalistic Inquiry. In Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST2010), October 2010.