About

I am a PhD student examining the relationship between communication patterns and group processes in information diffusion through an online community.

I’m exploring the social networks of virtual world Second Life, which displays social properties reflective of offline social life.

Because it’s digital, I can capture social interaction in ways which real life methods are unable to offer.

Using social network analysis and surveys, I intend to understand how the hardware of interpersonal ties effects the software of interpersonal interaction.

See my homepage for research, MySpace for me, Flickr for images and the Social Simulation Research Lab for me in-world.


8 Responses to “About”

  1. Link to Flickr page is broken. The correct one should be http://www.flickr.com/photos/toastkid/

    I found your blog following your mail on INSNA mailing list ;-)

    Of course fee free to remove this comment.

    paolo said this on January 17, 2007 at 1:44 pm | Reply

  2. Doh! Thanks Paolo,
    Aleks

    akrotoski said this on February 1, 2007 at 10:45 am | Reply

  3. nice website yhe best i ever saw

    job kamara said this on October 24, 2007 at 8:03 pm | Reply

  4. Hi Aleks – it’s Richard Edwards here. Been trying to contact you for a while about your work when somebody just forwarded me this link to your blog. Very nice it is too! Don’t know if you’re interested in the opportunities I mentioned in my other attempts at contact (did you get the emails?), but if not then no worries and sorry for bugging you :)
    If you are, though, let me know and we’ll take it from there!

    All the best,
    Richard

    Richard Edwards said this on November 5, 2007 at 3:59 pm | Reply

  5. Love the blog. I’m a PhD student myself, also studying Internet social media, and was wondering if you wanted to do a link exchange on our blogrolls. I think are topics would complement each other quite well. Please let me know.

    Rob D.
    rdomanski@hotmail.com
    http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com

    Rob D said this on March 6, 2008 at 9:27 pm | Reply

  6. [...] Aleks Krotoski compila un índice sobre estos recursos y lleva un blog Social Sim. Simulating the Social: Musings from a Cyber-researcher.  ¿Han escuchado el término ansiedad de información?  Experimenté un poco cuando vi tanto recurso de calidad de un tema que me apasiona [...]

    Social Simulator Research Lab « PI en Second Life said this on March 23, 2008 at 7:49 pm | Reply

  7. Hi Aleks,

    Just a note to say thanks for the talk at dConstruct; I got a lot out of it. As a web developer interested in social psychology, any pointers on reading list, etc?

    Cheers,

    Dan

    Dan Donald said this on September 8, 2008 at 11:41 am | Reply

  8. Great blog. I’m a PhD student working on the branding of ICTs. Have a butchers at my blog peacockbird.co.uk

    Chloe said this on March 12, 2009 at 5:09 pm | Reply

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