#AAJA12 Recap: Engineering the tipping point with James She

Did you know Asia’s first social media laboratory was founded right here in Hong Kong? James She, HKUST professor and director of the university’s NIE Social Media Lab, shows us the “science behind the social” …

  1. She speaks about the feasibility of finding the tipping point of digital media and potentially engineering it to happen, as well as its implication to journalism. The lab focuses on the research and design of next-generation social media systems, networks and applications in emerging cyber-physical societies. 
  2. AAJAAsia
    James She gets on stage for ‘Engineering the Tipping Point’. He is the director of HKUST NIE Social Media Lab. #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 04:58:32
  3. JMSCHKU
    James She of HKUST is up! He will talk about the “tipping point” in information & social media #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 04:58:57
  4. hanbae
    James She, director of HK Univ of Sci & Tech’s NIE Social Media Lab, at #AAJA12. Lab is only one of its kind in Asia http://pic.twitter.com/i357ipUX
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:11:13
  5. JMSCHKU
    HKUST NIE Social Media Lab promo video http://youtu.be/FumoTBHG39k #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:09:24
  6. hanbae
    What’s amazing about HKUST NIE Social Media Lab is that it’s entirely homegrown technology. Impressive work by James She. #AAJA12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:16:42
  7. DannyKimFilm
    HKUST has a similar lab as KAIST GSCT’s Social Media Lab! My graduate school colleagues would be happy to listen to this session. #AAJA12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:16:59
  8. AAJAAsia
    Social Network Analysis:Understandng data by capturing & visualizing the user,their interactions & intensities through social graphs #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:10:08
  9. AAJAAsia
    On social media, it isn’t just content being distributed. It also reflects some social structure abt people & information- James She #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:13:24
  10. hkslowliving
    James She: Facebook cuts six degree of separation into four. Social media is making us closer to each other? #AAJA12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:15:19
  11. AAJAAsia
    James She poses an imp. question: How do you make social media effectively viral to targeted users in a social network? #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:22:29
  12. DannyKimFilm
    James She is talking about Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point #AAJA12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:28:39
  13. DannyKimFilm
    HKUST Social Media Lab director James She is presenting now #AAJA12 http://pic.twitter.com/8aNHSCHC
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:32:55
  14. hkslowliving
    How to engineer tipping pr 4 social media? 3 factors: stickiness, power of context,law of the few-James She, HKUST social media lab #AAJA12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:28:45
  15. AAJAAsia
    The lab does research on various topics. James She discusses: what are the odds of two people bumping into each other? #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:34:36
  16. AAJAAsia
    It all burns down to social graphs. ‘Check-in’ information shows that most people tend to stay around their area. #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:35:24
  17. yingworld
    An example of using social network analyis to analyze big data and generate stories http://bit.ly/igAtFU #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:37:33
  18. hanbae
    James She’s research applicable to journalists bc it can help us manage large amounts of data and use it smartly to target audience #AAJA12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:41:45
  19. yingworld
    Data journalism at the frontier of today’s journalism. Examples from the Guardian http://bit.ly/ePfVWo #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:39:53
  20. AAJAAsia
    James She concludes his talk with a great Q&A session. Now AAJA-Asia members and JMSC head, Ying Chan give their concluding remarks. #aaja12
    Sat, May 12 2012 05:50:36

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