More FaceBook Findings
Fred Stutzman’s talk on Friday [slides here in PDF] just scratched the surface on what he’s learned by mining Facebook. His latest post to ibiblog tells us some interesting things about our new Freshman class. Included is a self-reported political profile, a bit about website use and location (they don’t rush to use www.unc.edu), telling relationship info, and more.
In a response to a posting on my blog, coturnix of NCSU is inspired to follow Fred’s research on political leanings but with info from the Wolfpack’s FaceBook site.
Fred’s political leanings study has spawned similar studies at NCSU and Kansas.
Comment by Administrator — October 3, 2005 @ 5:25 pm
I am concerned about the widespread lack of concerns about privace that Fred’s talk uncovered. Here is the ACLU pizza integrated database thing I mentioned in class a while back:
http://aclu.org/pizza/
Comment by habib — October 3, 2005 @ 10:57 pm
Wait ’til you read what the University of Alabama is doing–their own version of facebook with access for parents. There is mixed reaction so far.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/28/bama
Comment by karen — October 4, 2005 @ 5:01 pm