Janna Anderson, assistant professor in the School of Communications, presented research at the Social Software Symposium sponsored at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Dec. 8 and 9. The event was sponsored by UNC’s School of Library and Information Sciences.
Anderson’s presentation was titled “The Future and Social Networks.”
Other key speakers at the event included David Weinberger of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society; information architecture expert Thomas Vander Wal, a member of the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project (originator of the term “folksonomy”); and social networks researchers Nicole Ellison and Cliff Lampe of Michigan State University.