About the Social Media Lab

Philip Mai Research &

CommunicationsManager

@phmai

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

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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)

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At the Social Media Lab

we study…

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How social media can support

online communities, social activism

and political engagement?

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What does it mean to be

“influential” online?

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How to detect

and stop

the spread of

rumours &

misinformation

in social media?

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How “second screens”

change the way

we watch TV?

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Learning Analytics for

the Social Media Age:

Can Social Help to

Enhance Teaching &

Learning in Highered?

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How to make Legacy

Biodiversity Heritage

Artifacts Sharable

Through Social Media?

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Creating the

Infrastructure and

Framework For

Sharing & Tracking

Digital Objects on

Social Media(Out of

Print Books, Digitized

Objects, etc…)

At the Social Media Lab

we develop

Data Analytics Software

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Social Media Data Visualizations Understanding

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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

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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/

Thank You!@SMLabTO

Philip Mai Research &

CommunicationsManager

@phmai