Talks

• Explore Globally, Collect Locally: Social Media Data Harvesting with ContextMiner. Symposium on Big Data in Public Health. Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. March 19, 2013.
• Seeking Synergy in Information Seeking. Guest lecture in CS672: Recommendation and Search Engines. Dept. of CS, Rutgers: October 28, 2011.
• A Story of Context-Capturing and Cross-Country Coding. University of Wisconsin at Madison. August 12, 2009.
• Supporting Research Data Collection from YouTube with TubeKit. At YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States Conference. April 16, 2009. Amherst, MA. (3rd prize) [Talk]
• Hunting for Hip, Hipsters, and Happenings on YouTube. ASIST 2008 presentation. Columbus, Ohio. October 27, 2008.
• Republic of Web: A web of, by, and for the people. CRADLE talk. UNC Chapel Hill. November 14, 2008. [Slides in PDF]
• We, the People on YouTube: Understanding Democracy of, by, and for the Online Media Sharing. University Research Day Talk. UNC Chapel Hill. March 4, 2008.
• Hunting for Hip, Hipsters, and Happenings on YouTube - A ContextMiner Story. CRADLE Talk. UNC Chapel Hill. September 21, 2007. [Slides in PDF]
• Finding Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen on YouTube. Yahoo! Research Berkeley, CA. August 10, 2007.
• Preserving 2008 US Presidential Election Videos. International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) 2007. Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 23, 2007. [Slides in PDF]
• Mining Contextual Information for Ephemeral Digital Video Preservation: A Beginning. Research Issues and Questions Seminar. UNC Chapel Hill. April 24, 2007.