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Marc Smith is a Senior Research Sociologist in the Microsoft Research Internet Services Research Center Search Labs team. My work focuses on computer-mediated collective action. I study and design enhancements for social cyberspaces. In particular I am interested in the emergence of social organizations like communities in online conversation and annotation environments. Our goal is to identify the resources groups need in order to cooperate productively. Communities in Cyberspace, a book on the subject is now available from Routledge. Co-edited with Peter Kollock, the book explores identity, social order and control, community structures, dynamics, and collective action in cyberspace. I have also developed software that measures and maps social spaces in the Internet, starting with the Usenet. Read more about Netscan. As related project allows users to associate conversations (and more) with physical objects using mobile wireless devices and web services. Read more about Project AURA. I was a graduate student in the UCLA Department of Sociology. Here is a copy of my Vita. Current Projects
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Publications and Talks Smith,
Marc, Duncan Davenport, Howard Hwa. "AURA:
A mobile platform for object and location annotation", in
Ubicomp 2003. Burkhalter,
Byron and Marc Smith. "Inhabitant’s
uses and reactions to Usenet social accounting data", in
Inhabited Information Spaces, Snowden and Churchill, 2003. Viégas,
Fernanda B., Marc Smith. "Newsgroup
Crowds and AuthorLines: Visualizing the Activity of Individuals in
Conversational Cyberspaces", HICSS 2004. [Best Paper:
Persistent Conversation Minitrack] Fiore, Andrew, Scott Lee Teirnan, Marc
Smith. "Observed
Behavior and Perceived Value of Authors in Usenet Newsgroups: Bridging the
Gap", 2001. Fiore, Andrew and Marc Smith. "Tree
Map Visualizations of Newsgroups", 2001. Smith, Marc and Andrew Fiore. "Visualization
components for persistent conversations", in ACM SIG CHI
2001. Smith, Marc. "Some
social implications of ubiquitous wireless networks" ACM
Mobile Computing and Communications Review, April 200, Vol.4 No. 2 Smith, Marc, JJ Cadiz, Byron
Burkhalter, Conversation
Trees and Threaded Chats, CSCW 2000. Smith, Marc and Peter Kollock. Communities
in Cyberspace: Perspectives on New Forms of Social Organization. London, Routledge Press, 1999. Smith, Marc. “Invisible
Crowds in Cyberspace: Measuring and Mapping the Social Structure of USENET”
in Communities
in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London,
Routledge Press, 1999 Smith, Marc. “Voices
from the WELL: The Logic of the Virtual Commons” Unpublished
manuscript, 1992 Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1999. "Introduction:
Communities in Cyberspace." Pp. 3-25 in Communities
in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London:
Routledge Press, 1999. Kollock, Peter and Marc Smith. "Managing
the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities."
Computer-Mediated
Communication, edited by S. Herring. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins, 1996. Smith, Marc, Shelly Farnham, Steven
Drucker. “The
Social Life of Small Graphical Chats” in ACM SIG CHI 2000 Dave Vronay, Smith, Marc, Steven
Drucker. “Chat
as a Streaming Media Type” in ACM UIST 1999 Xiong, Rebecca ; Smith, Marc ;
Drucker, Steven. "Visualizations
of Collaborative Information for End-Users". Microsoft Technical Report,
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