Mor Naaman

About

I am an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, in the department of Library and Information Science, where I run the Social Media Information Lab. Before coming to Rutgers I spent some time at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, and at Stanford.

My research focuses on social information and social media, with excursions to mobile and multimedia applications: what can we learn from the activity of people on social media services about the world, about society, and about people?

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News

09 Jan 2012. Belated thanks to Yahoo! for a Research Engagement Award, and overall support for data science at Rutgers SC&I! http://t.co/4j6xY70a

16 Dec 2011. New Google Research Award to study spatiotemporal patterns in Social Media: looking for a star postdoc. Thanks Google! http://t.co/n7LIqHof

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Publications

Jessa Lingel and Mor Naaman. You Should Have Been There, Man: Live Music, DIY Content and Online Communities. New Media & Society, To Appear.

Hila Becker, Mor Naaman and Luis Gravano. Beyond Trending Topics: Real-World Event Identification on Twitter. In Proceedings, ICWSM 2011, July 2011.

Hila Becker, Mor Naaman and Luis Gravano. Selecting Quality Twitter Content for Events. In Proceedings, ICWSM 2011, July 2011.

Mor Naaman, Hila Becker and Luis Gravano. Hip and Trendy: Characterizing Emerging Trends on Twitter. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 62(5), May 2011.

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.

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Blog

20 Dec 2011. Cheer Up! Some Holiday Hacking

With my star undergrads Ian and Abe, and backend support from Ziad, we put together this mashup for the holidays! We use the data from the Twitter streaming crawler we built (for our NSF-funded work) to get Instagram photos posted on Twitter that have the word Christmas in the tweet, and where the photo location [...]

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