Research and Creative Projects

The Role of Social Network Sites in Facilitating Collaborative Processes (Fall 2009 - Fall 2012)

Although traditionally conceived of as a purely “social” outlet, social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook contain a number of social and technical affordances that enable users to engage in both organizing and collaboration. Recently... read more

QMRA Wiki (Spring 2012)

QMRAwiki is the QMRA community's portal for current quantitative information and knowledge developed for the Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) field. It is an evolving repository for QMRA knowledge and data available to the risk... read more

Participation Lifecycles in Online Communities (Fall 2008 - Fall 2011)

Online communities come and go, as do the people in them. However, little is known about how these processes occur. Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, TOIL researchers are looking at issues that include why people leave... read more

Advocacy 2.0 (Spring 2011)

Using social media. Perceiving social media. The future of social media. The “Advocacy 2.0” project is a large survey analysis of individuals currently working with advocacy organizations in the United States. The project aims to... read more

MichEEN (Fall 2010)

Made possible through funding by the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Growth, the Social Media Research Lab worked with INgage to create a social media website that provides a space for municipalities, energy workers and government employees... read more

SpartanConnect (Summer 2010)

SpartanConnect is a student-focused site created by MSU's Residential and Hospitality Services to help MSU students connect with one another and access resources. Currently the site is available only to students in the East Neighborhood (Akers... read more

Great Lakes Echo - Environmental News Across the Basin (Spring 2010)

The site "fosters and serves a news community defined by proximity to and interest in the environment of the Great Lakes watershed. We use traditional news reporting methods but also push the frontiers of journalism to harness the knowledge,... read more

Community Ties: Developing social ties in rural Michigan counties (Fall 2007)

Community Ties was a multi-year program that aims to forge new social ties among youth, local entrepreneurs and other professionals through online social networking and community development activities. This project was... read more

Wonderwalls (Fall 2003)

Wonderwalls connect students in an online or in-person class in real time and asynchronously to a persistent collaborative moderated communication environment designed to honor, encourage, and preserve the act of wondering. ... read more

ASL Browser WEB and Personal Communicator CD-ROM (Spring 1995)

The American Sign Language (ASL) Browser collects the 3000 different signs representing 5000 English words that are included on the Personal Communicator CD-ROM and presents them in a web site where you can look up the video of the signs and learn... read more

Michigan State University

Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media (TISM)

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