SIOP 2010: Day 1 Live Blog
This transcript is a later capture of my Twitter stream during Day 1 of the SIOP 2010 conference.
Category: Professorship
SIOP 2010: No Wireless Internet
If you’re wondering why there haven’t been any updates/live-blogging, it’s because there is no wireless Internet access available at SIOP! That makes blogging a little tricky. I’ll try to find a workaround later tonight (for tomorrow), but in the meantime, you should be following my twitter feed (which I can update from my iPhone).
SIOP 2010: Planning My Schedule
I’m knee deep in planning my schedule for the 2010 conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, which starts this Thursday. Depending on the technology situation, I’ll be attempting to tweet from sessions and either live-blog or close to it, to both share with you what’s going on and also to organize my own thoughts on the days’ activities.
Twitter Predicts Box Office Revenue
In the first paper I’ve seen using social media (like Twitter) to tie to a real world monetary outcome, Asur and Huberman (2010) at the Social Computing Labs in Palo Alto, CA use Twitter activity to predict film box office sales. Taking all 24 major film releases between November 2009 and January 2010, the number of tweets on new films predict sales even better than the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX), an online prediction game (think fantasy football for film success) that is described as the “gold standard” for predicting box office revenues.
The Progression of Misinformation and Syphilis
Reports have been surfacing recently claiming Facebook usage enables the spread of syphilis. This is mostly based on irresponsible reporting.
Risks and Ethics of Training and Educating in Second Life
Several pieces have been floating around in the last week or so on virtual crime. It centers around a basic question: is interpersonal crime committed in a virtual space really crime if there is no real-world corollary?