{"id":3571,"date":"2007-12-17T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/on_facebook_scholars_link_up_with_data\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T17:32:00","slug":"on_facebook_scholars_link_up_with_data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"On Facebook, scholars link up with data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s network of 58 million active users and its status as the sixth-most-trafficked Web site in the United States have made it an irresistible subject for many types of academic research.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars at Carnegie Mellon used the site to look at privacy issues. Researchers at the University of Colorado analyzed how Facebook instantly disseminated details about the Virginia Tech shootings in April.<\/p>\n<p>But it is Facebook&#8217;s role as a petri dish for the social sciences \u201d\u201d sociology, psychology and political science \u201d\u201d that particularly excites some scholars, because the site lets them examine how people, especially young people, are connected to one another, something few data sets offer, the scholars say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/printfriendly.php?id=8775131\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s network of 58 million active users and its status as the sixth-most-trafficked Web site in the United States have made it an irresistible subject for many types of academic research. Scholars at Carnegie Mellon used the site to look<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3571\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,94,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-blogging-the-internet","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}