social media

SICSA DEMOfest 2012

The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance in association with ScotlandIS hosted their 5th annual DEMOfest, a technology showcase of Scottish Universities Informatics and Computer Science on the 6th November. The school had three posters at the DEMOfest. Derek and Gordon were promoting their work on the SFC funded Horizon Project “Services to the Cloud”, SICSA DEMOfest 2012

Twitter Innocent in English riots

Alex Voss was part of the team investigating the role of social media during the English Riots. The study was highlighted in the University news today, and the Guardian this morning. Update The results of the study will also be presented at the Reading the Riots conference, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/dec/14/reading-the-riots-conference-live-blog which also features a range of other Twitter Innocent in English riots

Twitter: it’s good to talk

Social media can help people without speech communicate more naturally. Work carried out by Per Ola featured in the University News today.