research @ the social media lab (@smlabto)
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Located in the heart of
downtown Toronto
Distinctly urban, culturally
diverse and inclusive
100 undergraduate and
graduate programs,
38,000+ students
Home to #1 University-
based startup incubator in
North America
MBA program ranks among
top 100 in the world by The
Economist
About Ryerson University
@SMLabTO
OUR TEAM Online Communities
Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Information Visualization & Information
Dashboard
Text Mining & Distributed Computing
Computer Mediated Communication
OUR EXPERTISE
Director (1), Post Doc and
Research Associates (3) , PhD
Students(5), Master’s students
(3), Undergraduate students(2),
Research and Communications
Manager(1), System
Administrator (1)
Faculty Research Collaborators
across Canada and abroad
(USA, UK, Brazil, S.Korea, Hong
Kong)
@SMLabTO
Learning Analytics for
the Social Media Age:
Can Social Help to
Enhance Teaching &
Learning in Highered?
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@SMLabTO
Creating the
Infrastructure and
Framework For
Sharing & Tracking
Digital Objects on
Social Media(Out of
Print Books, Digitized
Objects, etc…)
NETLYTIC.ORGa social media data analytic
platform designed to analyze
conversational data and visualize
social networks
• Twitter, Youtube, Instagram,
Facebook, blogs, etc…
DATA ANALYTIC
PLATFORM
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MYTWEEPS.COM Daily Insights About Your Tweeps
(aka your Twitter followers)
We call it a "reverse" Twitter
because instead of seeing
tweets from people whom you
follow, the app shows you tweets
from people who follow you.
WEB
APPLICATION
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POLIDASHBOARD.COM
Live Twitter analytics dashboard
featuring statistics and insights about
politics in general and federal elections
in particular (2015 –Canada, 2016 -US,
UK, Spain, etc…)
INFORMATION DASHBOARD
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SocialMediaAndSociety.org
2 Keynote Speakers
400+ Authors
28 Countries
18 Full Papers
69 WIP Papers
6 Workshops
5 Panels
43 PostersPublishing
Opportunities
@SMLabTO
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Two funded ($4k CAD ea.) and two
self-funded position
Open to faculty researchers & senior
PhD students
1-4 months in length
Application Accepted
Sept 15 - Dec 15
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VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM
HTTP://SOCIALMEDIALAB.CA/VISIT/