Dr. Jennifer Golbeck is Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and an
Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies at the
University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on analyzing and computing with social media. This includes building models of social relationships, particularly trust, as
well as user preferences and attributes, and using the results to design
and build systems that improve the way people interact with information
online.
Here are links to some of the Internet resources we mentioned during the interview:
Her TED.com presentation.
The Curly Fries Study that she cites in that presentation.
The article about how to delete all your Facebook content.
The tool that analyzes your Twitter feed for emotional content.
The Forbes article about the pregnant teen.
David Van Nuys, PhD
Creator/Host of Shrink Rap Radio
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