Recent and Selected Press:
The findings of various
research endeavours I have been involved in have been
covered across the globe, appearing in (or on as the case
may be) the New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press, the
BBC, CNN, the London Times, etc. The coverage comprises
four distinct truly global reporting events: Happiness
(2009), Musiclab (2006), and Small Worlds (2003 and 2001).
Other areas which have received international attention
include Influence, River networks, and Energy Metabolism. I
will provide some more structure to this list...
- CNN Health (August 24, 2009):
How do we find life’s benchmark? by Akash
Goel.
- San Francisco Chronicle (August 17, 2009):
Web offering more gauges about happiness by
Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera.
- New York Times (August 12, 2009):
Schott's Vocab: Hedonometer by Ben Schott.
(Some enjoyable comments.)
- New York Times (August 11, 2009):
Using Twitter as a Collective Mood Ring by
Jenna Wortham.
- Science Magazine (Vol. 325, p. 659), Random Samples
(August 7, 2009):
Blogs: Happiness Barometers? interview by
Michael Torrice, edited by Robert Coontz (subscription
required).
- New York Times (August 3, 2009):
Does a Nation’s Mood Lurk in Its Songs and
Blogs? by Ben Carey.
- ScienceNOW Daily News (August 3, 2009):
How Happy is the Internet? by Michael
Torrice.
- London Times Online (August 3, 2009):
Twittering your way to happiness by Anjana
Ahuja.
- The Week (August 21, 2009):
Measuring a nation's mood (requires
subscription).
- Discovery News (July 31, 2009):
'Happiness Meter' Analyzes Blogs, Tweets by
Eric Bland.
- Vermont Public Radio News (July 31, 2009): UVM professors
measure happiness by Ross Sneyd.
- Reuters (July 29, 2009):
Jackson's death was blogosphere's saddest day:
study by Belinda Goldsmith.
- Chronicle of Higher Education (July 29, 2009):
Think You're Happy? Song Lyrics May Have the
Answer by Marc Beja.
- Scientific American: 60 Second Science (July 28,
2009):
Measuring emotion in cyberspace: Jackson's death a sad
day; Obama's election a very happy one : ) by
Lynne Peeples.
- UVM Today (July 23, 2009):
If You're Happy, Then We Know It: New Research Measures
Mood by Joshua Brown.
- New Yorker (August 3, 2009)
A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the
book? by Nicholson Baker. This is a very gentle
but amusing connection. I contributed to the edited
volume
"The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and
Corals", which here is a (mostly) random book chosen
by Baker to demonstrate problems with current technology
(and pricing) of the Kindle. Andrew Sullivan pointed
straight to the relevant section
here.
- Slashdot (December 1, 2008): Censorship
by Glut by Bennett Haselton.
- The View (November 12, 2008): It's
Complex by Joshua Brown.
- Russian Smart Money (February 11, 2008): Они
не цепляют: В партизанском маркетинге от звезд никакого
толку by Michael Popov.
- Science News (January 5, 2008):
The Power of Being Influenced: Network theory reveals
the best way to spread ideas by Julie J.
Rehmeyer.
- Washington Post (December 31, 2007):
"Vote Your Conscience. If You Can." by Shankar
Vedantam.
- In Power,
Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
(2005), Nick Lane nicely covers our 2001
work on energy metabolism for mammals and birds:
"As so often happens in science, the apparently solid
foundations of a field turned to rubble on closer
inspection." The relevant excerpt is
here.
- The main press pages for past online sociological
experiments are here
(Music Lab) and here
(Small World Project).
- Technology Research News (May 29, 2002):
Groups key to network structures.
- New York Times (December 20, 2001):
Using E-Mail to Count Connections.
- Nature (September 28, 2001)
All creatures great and small.
- New York Times (November 23, 1999)
Physicists invading geologists' turf.
- Science (June 4, 1999)
New clues to why size equals destiny.
- Geotimes (June, 1999): What
tangled networks they weave.
- MIT News (March 23, 1999): MIT
researcher seeks to unravel the physics of landscape
erosion.
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