Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

data

  • Screencast and Video of My Computers and Writing 2013 Presentation

    Updated 12 June 2013 I presented “Baby, We were Born to Tweet: #Springsteen, Concert Tweets, and an Emergent Transmediated Composing Community” at the 2013 Computers and Writing Conference.  In it I discuss my large-scale study of Springsteen fans on Twitter in which I use grounded theory to analyze the data. My presentation was part of…

  • siftables

    Via @christateston: Created by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab, Stables are “cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – piling, grouping, sorting – to interact with digital information and media. Siftables…

  • on open source data analysis applications

    Those you who have been following Clay Spinuzzi on Twitter know that he has been starting to gather data for his latest study (his latest book, Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications just came out in hardback from Columbia UP). He mentioned in one of his tweets that he ought to blog about the…