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Next week my co-author Sean Fitzhugh will be presenting our joint work, “Did You Feel It? Spatial Filtering Techniques for Detection of Local Disaster Events”, at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. This work comes out of Project HEROIC with colleagues Ben Gibson and Carter Butts at the University of California, Irvine. Abstract: Spatial filtering is a powerful tool for detecting geographically constrained social phenomena. Filtering allows us to enhance the measurable signal of our phenomenon and ignore known sources of error.

The NCASD Lab was well-represented at this year’s American Sociological Association meeting. Emma Spiro presented work on self-disclosure norms on Facebook. A key component of self-presentation is the decision to reveal or conceal information about one’s person or circumstances. The online environment provides a unique opportunity for comparative study of such privacy-related behavior, both because of its relative newness and because of the opportunities it affords for systematic behavioral measurement on a global scale.

Members of the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics (NCASD) Lab presented on various Lab research initiatives at the recent American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Emma Spiro presented a talk titled, “Maintaining Ties from Coast to Coast: Selective Mixing Between Universities on Facebook” to the Methodology Section regarding the patterns in public college attendees and private college attendees’ social ties. The NCASD Lab was also pleased to have Lab Member Spiro inducted as the student representative to the ASA Mathematical Sociology Section Council at the conference, where she will serve alongside UCI Sociology Professor Kathryn Faust, who is this year’s Council Chair.

Several lab members presented research at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.