2012 Summer Specialist Meeting

2012 Summer Workshop

2012 Specialist Meeting Mapping Ideas: Discovering and Information Landscapes 

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San Diego State University, San Diego. August 1-3, 2012

The spread of ideas in the age of the Internet is a double-edged sword; it can enhance our collective welfare as well as produce forces that can destabilize the world. This specialist meeting aims at understanding the dynamic process by which the impact of a single event or idea disperses throughout the world over time and space. Dramatic events, especially when reported through the new media of cyberspace, have the potential to transform ideas into realities, in ways that can either inform or inflame the public passions. It is possible there are geographic and chronological patterns that coincide to reveal the nature of significant events and the ways in which information about these events is consumed and used by those engaged with such media. This specialist meeting (workshop) is funded by an NSF-CDI project (#1028177, Mapping Cyberspace to Realspace: Visualizing and Understanding the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Global Diffusion of Ideas and the Spatial Web,http://mappingideas.sdsu.edu/). The goal of this workshop is to foster the multidisciplinary collaboration in related research disciplines, including geography, linguistics, computer science, political science, and communication.

 

 

2012 Summer Specialist Meeting  Mapping Ideas: Discovering and Information Landscape

Participant List

Li An  Bio    Position Paper Department of Geography  San Diego State University————————————————— Anatoliy Gruzd  Bio    Position Paper  School of Information Management Dalhousie University ————————————————— Jennifer Mathieu  Bio    Position Paper  MITRE Corporation —————————————————- Mark Sawyer  Bio    Position Paper  CDC —————————————————- Brian Spitzberg  Bio    Position Paper  Department of Communication San Diego State University —————————————————- Michael Thomas  Bio    Position Paper  SPAWAR LANT

Clay Fink  Bio    Position Paper Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab—————————————————- Dipak Gupta  Bio    Position Paper  Department of Political Science San Diego State University —————————————————- K. Micheal Peddecord  Bio    Position Paper  Department of Public Health San Diego State University —————————————————- Lee Servi  Bio    Position Paper  MITRE Corporation —————————————————- Kathleen Stewart  Bio    Position Paper  Department of Geography University of Iowa —————————————————- Ming-Hsiang Tsou  Bio    Position Paper  Department of Geography San Diego State University

Jean Marc Gawron  Bio    Position Paper Department of Computational Linguistics  San Diego State University————————————————–Linna Li  Bio    Position Paper  Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara ————————————————– Derek Ruths  Bio    Position Paper  School of Computer Science  McGill University ————————————————– Shih-Lung Shaw  Bio    Position Paper  Department of Geography University of Tennessee ————————————————– Kristen Summers  Bio    Position Paper  Advanced Knowledge Solutions  Division Group. CACI