Helped found the Web Ecology Project, an experimental community of social media researchers, in June 2009.
Website
Details of Work
- Member of core strategy team
- Led business development trip in September 2009, presenting our research to a government agency and contractor in Washington, DC, and to a marketing agency in New York City
- Co-organized Web Ecology mailing list, transitioning organization from a for-profit venture to a distributed network of like-minded researchers
- Participated in all Web Ecology Camps: October 2009 (Boston), February 2010 (NYC), May 2010 (Boston), February 2011 (Boston & SF)
- Co-authored four studies using Twitter data
- Contributed to core Twitter scraping scripts and tweet database design
- Co-developed Web Ecology Project website
- Designed Adobe Illustrator template for all research reports and Apple Keynote template for all presentations
Related Publications and Presentations
- Graeff, E. 2011. Mapping an Arab Ecosystem (or two). Presented for the Mapping Media Ecosystems panel, MIT Center for Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Nov 2.
- Lotan, G, Graeff, E, Ananny, M, Gaffney, D, Pearce, I & boyd, d. 2011. The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. International Journal of Communication, 5.
- Graeff, E. 2010. Twitter and Democracy. Presented for the Internet and Society: Technology and Politics of Control class, Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, MA, Apr 20.
- Graeff, E with Woodworth, S. 2009. Afghanistan and its Election on Twitter: The Macro Picture. Web Ecology Project.
- Kim, E, Gilbert, S, with Edwards, MJ & Graeff, E. 2009. Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters: Sentiment Analysis and Mourning Michael Jackson on Twitter. Web Ecology Project.
- (Various Authors). 2009. Reimagining Internet Studies. Web Ecology Project.