
Bernie Hogan examines how to capture, represent and think about social networks, especially personal social networks. His work focuses on the role of design in social media, network capture techniques and theories of relationships.
Dr Bernie Hogan
Senior Research Fellow
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Profile
Bernie Hogan (PhD Toronto, 2009) is a Senior Research Fellow at the OII and Research Associate at the Department of Sociology. With training in sociology and computer science, Hogan focuses on how social networks and social media can be designed to empower people to build stronger relationships and stronger communities.
Hogan’s theoretical work was among the first to identify the role of the social media platform as curator and to distinguish certain social media as the ‘real name web’. His practical work has shown how network visualizations can reveal new information to individuals from their social media data. He believes that the way networked information comes us in feeds is akin to being given a route through social space. This might get us where we want to go, but to truly empower people we need to see the map, not only the route along the way.
Hogan’s innovations in social network analysis began with his work at NetLab at the University of Toronto. With Barry Wellman and fellow graduate students, he introduced participant-aided sociograms as a means to capture social networks with pen and paper. He subsequently applied this to social media, and especially Facebook with the introduction of NameGenWeb, a Facebook network visualizer (with Joshua Melville). The second generation of this visualizer, CollegeConnect, was empirically shown to help high school students reveal social resources in their networks. Most recently, with Melville and collaborators at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University, he has been working on Network Canvas. This software makes the collection of self-reported network data accessible to non-technical researchers.
Hogan has published in a wide variety of venues, from peer-reviewed papers in sociology journals (such as Social Networks, City and Community, Bulletin of Science Technology and Society, and Field Methods), in computer science proceedings (such as CHI, ICWSM, and CSCW) and related disciplines, particularly geography (with papers in Environment and Planning B, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers and Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie) and communication (with papers in New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, International Journal of Communication, and Information, Communication and Society). This is in addition to many chapters in books, grey literature reports and public opinion pieces. He is on the editorial boards of Social Media + Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Networks.
Public dissemination of research is a core part of Hogan’s work. With colleagues, he has worked with UK therapy organizations, Tavistock and Relate to produce guidelines on internet infidelity for patients and practitioners. He has also published related work in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. He has been featured on BBC 1 morning and Newsnight, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Vice and NBC in America. He is routinely featured on BBC 4 radio including as a mentor in Radio 4’s So You Want to Be a Scientist. He has given keynotes at conferences in France, UK, Switzerland and Japan.
As an academic Hogan is keen on service to the University and the wider academic community. He has run small academic seminars on Internet and Relationships at the OII as well as hosting the International Conference on Web and Social Media at Oxford in 2015. He was previously program chair for ICWSM in 2013 and 2014 and is currently a member of the ICWSM steering committee.
Many of Hogan’s papers can be found at his ssrn page and registered on his Google scholar. His ORCID is here. He is currently accepting graduate students on his active interests of names and naming practices, egocentric social networks, network visualizations, politics of social media and social identity, especially identity issues relating to gender and sexual minorities.
Positions held at the OII
- Senior Research Fellow, May 2017 –
- Research Fellow, October 2008 – May 2017
Students supervised at the OII
Past students
Research
Current projects
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Network Canvas: Development, Hardening, and Dissemination of a Software Suite for the Collection of Complex Network and Contextual Data in HIV and Drug Research
Participants: Dr Bernie Hogan, Dr Michelle Birkett, Dr Gregory Phillips II, Dr Patrick Janulis, Professor Noshir Contractor, Joshua Melville
This project is developing a standalone software suite to capture complex network and contextual data crucial for understanding population dynamics in disease control for HIV and Drug Research.
Past projects
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Wikipedia’s Networks and Geographies: Representation and Power in Peer-Produced Content
Participants: Dr Han-Teng Liao, Dr Bernie Hogan, Professor Mark Graham, Dr Scott A. Hale, Dr Heather Ford
This project brings together OII research fellows and doctoral students to shed light on the incorporation of new users and information into the Wikipedia community.
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College Connect
Participants: Dr Bernie Hogan, Joshua Melville, Dr Nicole Ellison, Dr Christine Greenhow
College Connect is webpage that visualizes social networks automatically from Facebook and puts them to work for the user. The target market of the application is prospective college students as well as those just entering college or university.
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Who represents the Arab world online? Mapping and measuring local knowledge production and representation in the Middle East and North Africa
Participants: Dr Bernie Hogan, Professor Mark Graham, Richard Farmbrough, Clarence Singleton, Dr Heather Ford, Dr Ilhem Allagui, Dr Ali Frihida, Ahmed Medhat Mohamed
Using Wikipedia to explore the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are pushed to the side, in representations of the Arab world online.
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Knowledge Exchange Networks: A Case Study in the Efficacy of Interactive Visualization
Participants: Dr Bernie Hogan, Dr Monica Bulger, Joshua Melville
Knowledge exchange implies forging, facilitating and fostering social connections. Oxford's Knowledge Exchange Network addresses this need among university staff and external stakeholders. We assist the KE Network through interactive network mapping.
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Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Bernie Hogan, Dr Nai Li, Dr Grant Blank, Dr Monica Whitty
The project uses survey data from Australian and UK couples to look at the significance and impact of the Internet on intimate relationships, including how people use ICTs to meet each other and maintain relationships, and how ICTs affect their behaviour.
Chapters
- (2018) "Break-ups and the limits of encoding love" In: A Networked Self and Love Papacharissi, Z. (eds.) First.A Networked Self. New York, NY: Routledge. 113-128.
- (2015) "Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir (Wikipedia Arabic and the Collective Construction of Knowledge)" In: Wikipedia, objet scientifique non identifie Barbe, L., Merzeau, L. and Schafer, V. (eds.). Paris: Presses Universitaries du Paris Ouest. 177-194.
Conference papers
- (2019) "Using Platform Signals for Distinguishing Discourses: The Case of Men’s Rights and Men’s Liberation on Reddit", Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. International Conference on Web and Social Media, Munich, Germany, 12 – 14 June 2019. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. 13 (1) 323-334.
- (2016) "First-Generation Students and College: The Role of Facebook Networks as Information Sources", Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing [CSCW ’16]. 27 February – 2 March 2016. ACM Digital Library. 887-899.
- (2015) "Assessing the structural correlates between friendship networks and conversational agency in Facebook groups", Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. 674-677.
Journal articles
- (2020) "Video Game Use, Acceptance, and Relationship Experiences: A Moderated Actor-Partner Interdependence Model", Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 23 (7) 453-458.
- (2020) "Avoiding GIGO: Learnings from data collection in innovation research", Social Networks.
- (2020) "Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (15) 201915006.
- (2019) "Assessing the stability of ego-centered networks over time using the digital participant-aided sociogram tool Network Canvas", Network Science. 8 (2) 204-222.
- (2019) "Conversations about conservation? Using social network analysis to understand energy practices", Energy Research & Social Science. 49 180-191.
- (2018) ""Everybody Puts Their Whole Life on Facebook": Identity Management and the Online Social Networks of LGBTQ Youth", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 15 (6) 1078.
- (2018) "Social Media Giveth, Social Media Taketh Away: Facebook, Friendships, and APIs", International Journal of Communication. 12 592-611.
- (2018) "Computer-Mediated Communication in Intimate Relationships: Associations of Boundary Crossing, Intrusion, Relationship Satisfaction, and Partner Responsiveness", Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 44 (1) 165-182.
- (2016) "Evaluating the Paper-to-Screen Translation of Participant-Aided Sociograms with High-Risk Participants", CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
- (2015) "Overcoming digital divides in higher education: Digital literacy beyond Facebook", New Media & Society. 17 (10) 1733-1749.
- (2015) "Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia", Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105 (6) 1158-1178.
- (2015) "Mixing in Social Media", Social Media + Society. 1 (1) 205630511558048.
- (2014) "Assessing structural correlates to social capital in Facebook ego networks", Social Networks. 38 1-15.
- (2014) Uneven Openness: Barriers to MENA Representation on Wikipedia.
- (2014) "Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty", Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104 (4) 746-764.
- (2014) "Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty", Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104 (4) 746-764.
- (2013) "Network approach for local and community governance of energy: The case of Oxfordshire", Energy Policy. 62 1064-1077.
- (2013) "A time decoupling approach for studying forum dynamics", World Wide Web. 16 (5-6) 595-620.
- (2013) "Comment on Elena Pavan/1: Considering Platforms as Actors", Sociologica. 3.
- (2011) "Racial and Ethnic Biases in Rental Housing: An Audit Study of Online Apartment Listings", City & Community. 10 (4) 351-372.
- (2011) "Socioeconomic status updates: college students, family SES, and emergent social capital in Facebook networks", Information, Communication and Society. 529-549.
- (2010) "The Presentation of Self in the Age of Social Media: Distinguishing Performances and Exhibitions Online", Bulletin of Science Technology and Society. 30 (6) 377-386.
- (2010) "Persistence and Change in Social Media", Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. 30 (5) 309-315.
- (2010) "Pinwheel layout to highlight community structure. Visualization Symposium", Journal of Social Structure.
- (2008) "AGENCY IN SOCIAL ACTIVITY INTERACTIONS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN TIME AND SPACE", Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. 99 (5) 562-583.
- (2008) "Collecting social network data to study social activity-travel behavior: an egocentric approach", Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 35 (6) 961-980.
- (2007) "Visualizing Personal Networks: Working with Participant-Aided Sociograms", Field Methods. 19 (2) 116-144.
- (2007) "Using Information Networks to Understand Social Behavior", IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. 30 (2) 6-14.
Reports
- (2014) Uneven openness: Barriers to MENA representation on Wikipedia. Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
- (2011) A Global Shift in the Social Relationships of Networked Individuals: Meeting and Dating Online Comes of Age. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
- (2007) Using Social Sorting to Enhance Email Management. Microsoft Research Technical Report. MSR-TR-2007-19.
- (2006) "A Scale for Measuring Email Overload. Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-65" In: Microsoft Technical Reports. Microsoft.
Teaching
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Fundamentals of Social Data Science in Python
This course is a four week intensive primer to get people up to speed on programming in the Python programming language for use with data science.
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Online Social Networks
An introduction to the analysis of online social networks, providing students with the tools necessary to undertake research on online networks, and to give an overview of the type of questions that these data can answer.
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Wrangling Data
This course will familiarize students with a variety of techniques for cleaning and shaping data.
Videos
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The good, the Bad, and the Ugly Data
Recorded: 13 May 2020
Duration: 00:58:39
Dr Bernie Hogan and Dr Adam Mahdi discuss 'The good, the Bad, and the Ugly Data: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Science and Contact Tracing on SARS-CoV-2'
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Dr Bernie Hogan explains why we’re supporting Get Online Week 2019
Recorded: 18 October 2019
Duration: 01:59:00
We're delighted to be supporting Get Online Week 2019, talking to academic Dr Bernie Hogan about why more people should get connected.
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In Conversation with Mark Newman: The Future of Network Science
Recorded: 17 February 2016
Duration: 01:28:08
Mark Newman discusses the emergent interdisciplinary field of network science and some of the current key challenges in the analysis of networks across the social and physical sciences.
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Cultures of Wikipedia
Recorded: 15 January 2016
Duration: 00:10:26
Presentation on Bernie Hogan's Wikipedia research, on the occasion of Wikipedia's 15th Birthday.
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Wrangling Data: OII MSc Methods Option Course
Recorded: 26 July 2015
Duration: 00:02:42
This methods option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" will familiarize the student with a variety of techniques for cleaning and shaping data.
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Online Social Networks: OII MSc Option Course
Recorded: 12 June 2015
Duration: 00:01:38
This option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" introduces social network analysis with particular emphasis on research design, data collection and analysis.
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Partner Compatibility and Online Dating Sites: Interview with Erina Lee
Recorded: 10 December 2011
Duration: 00:04:37
Erina Lee discusses the importance of similarity between partners in terms of long-term relationship satisfaction. She discusses some compatibility dimensions that have been considered by eHarmony, as well as future directions for research.
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Scammers on Online Dating Sites: Interview with Monica Whitty
Recorded: 10 December 2011
Duration: 00:06:04
Monica Whitty discusses her recent work on dating scams, which has focused on attempting to identify a typology of victims, recognizing the techniques used by scammers, and also the psychological impact of the scams themselves.
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Online Social Networks and Everyday Life
Recorded: 22 November 2010
Duration: 00:04:06
Bernie Hogan discusses the main themes of his lecture in the OII's "Society and the Internet" lecture series: how do individuals manage the blurring of public and private boundaries on general social network sites?
News
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New software tool to help researchers with complex social network data collection projects could be used to fight Covid-19
16 December 2020
Researchers at Northwestern University and the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, are proud to announce the stable release of the Network Canvas suite of tools for collecting social network data.
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Introducing Network Canvas: A Suite of Tools to Design and Manage Social Network Analysis Studies
27 October 2016
Bernie Hogan and Joshua Melville are collaborating on a $3.1m project at Northwestern University to develop software that can be used by researchers without technical skills to design and manage their own social network analysis studies.
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Congratulations to the 20 Winners of the College Knowledge Challenge!
23 January 2013
College Connect, an app that visualizes social networks to help lower income students find better and more successful routes to university, is one of the winners of the College Knowledge Challenge. It was developed by an OII-MSU team.
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OII Recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at Wikimedia UK’s Annual Conference
15 June 2012
The OII has been recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at the "UK Wikimedian of the Year" awards (12 May 2012). The award was made largely in recognition of the work by OII Research Fellow Dr Mark Graham to map and visualise Wikipedia data.
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Oxford University Teaching Awards for OII Faculty
3 November 2011
We are extremely pleased to announce that three members of the OII teaching faculty are to receive awards from the University of Oxford, in recognition of their excellent contributions to the department's teaching over the past year.
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Study: a third of us have used dating websites
14 February 2011
An Oxford University study suggests that nearly one in three of us who use the Internet have visited online dating sites.
Events
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Data: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Science and Contact Tracing on SARS-CoV-2
13 May 2020
Dr Bernie Hogan, Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, will examine how data collated during the COVID-19 pandemic is being utilised.
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Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion
1 June 2016
Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion
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Wikipedia 15th Birthday Editathon: The Social Internet
15 January 2016
On Friday 15 January 2016 Wikipedia will celebrate its fifteenth birthday and we are celebrating by having a Wikipedia editathon!
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DTC Workshop: Analysing Data with Crowds
25 November 2014
This course is designed to give students hands-on experience with the power and the pitfalls of using crowd sourced labour in social science research. Crowd sourced labour is becoming increasingly attractive as a part of the researcher’s toolkit.
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DTC Workshop: Capturing Online Data
24 November 2014
In this intensive one-day course, we will use the iPython web interface to collect data from Reddit and Twitter. We will discuss issues with data formats, APIs, authentication and strategies for the non-coder.
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Seminar: Putting The Audience Together – Using Social Network Analysis for Business Insights
29 February 2012
This practical course in social network analysis techniques is designed for senior business people who wish to get a sense of how their customers build communities, influence opinions and distribute messages.
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Online Social Networks and Everyday Life (Society and the Internet Lecture Series, Part 11)
31 January 2012
This talk explores the many questions that the rapid diffusion of Social Networking Sites has given rise to. It will introduce some of the research that is addressing these issues through quantitative, qualitative, and 'trace' methods.
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Urban Food Futures: ICTs and Opportunities
14 December 2011
This symposium brings together leading scholars across disciplines to address challenges and opportunities at the intersection of food and ICTs in everyday urban environment.
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Symposium on Relationships and the Internet
Friday 09 - Saturday 10 December 2011
This symposium is designed to engage a small group of academic researchers producing scholarship on how online contexts such as online dating and social media are facilitating and hindering personal, social and romantic relationships.
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Beyond Surveys: Researching the Internet and Internet Data (Doctoral Research Methods Workshop Series, Part 1)
17 November 2011
This is the first workshop in a three-part series on social science research methods, aimed at doctoral students at the University of Oxford.
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Undergraduate Lecture Series (M7): Online Social Networks and Everyday Life
22 November 2010
Do Social network sites act as a substitute for offline interaction? Can we consider hundreds of Facebook friends 'real' friends? How do individuals manage the blurring of public and private boundaries on general social network sites?
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Be careful what you wish for: The emergent challenges of the social web
3 June 2010
Facebook is exposing hordes of data to the public web and implementing more tedious privacy controls. This talk explores the consequences of this situation by asking 'what if everyone you know is now a friend on Facebook?'
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Forum on Relationships and the Internet
4 December 2009
This forum will look at the state of the art of academic research on relationships and the Internet and how this research informs research on the social aspects of the Internet in general, such as issues of trust and identity.
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Public Panel on the Internet and Relationships
4 December 2009
This public panel discussion focuses on the significance and impact of the Internet on interpersonal relationships. Following an all-day forum on the topic, it will highlight the day's findings.
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Nuffield-OII Networks Seminar Series
Monday 12 October - Monday 30 November 2009
A series of weekly seminars for fellows and students at the University of Oxford to discuss their research on online networks in an informal environment.
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Email Use in Personal Networks: Insights from the Connected Lives Project
30 March 2007
Summary to come.
Blog
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Recent piece in New Statesmen
30 April 2018
Author: Bernie Hogan
I tend not to blog much anymore, but I do enjoy the occasional op ed. With the revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s relationship to Facebook, ...
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A comment on Fuchs’ Social Media.
10 October 2014
Author: Bernie Hogan
This is the draft text of a response that I gave to a Book Colloquim on Christian Fuchs’ “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”. The ...
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The Summer Doctoral Program and Toronto: The Meeting Place is the Message
16 February 2013
Author: Bernie Hogan
OII Research Fellow Bernie Hogan is a regular fixture on the OII’s Summer Doctoral Programme, tutoring and leading seminars on social networking. Having obtained ...
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Real name sites are necessarily inadequate for free speech
9 August 2011
Author: Bernie Hogan
Recently on the social media collective blog, danah boyd set off a firestorm by suggesting that the imposition of real names on social media ...
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Correction: Gender detection is not always helpful
21 June 2011
Author: Bernie Hogan
In a recent New Scientist article I was quoted on a story about gender-detection technology. The hook was that this technology might have detected ...
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Craigslist Discrimination paper accepted for City & Community
12 June 2011
Author: Bernie Hogan
What’s in a name? Is Bernie more likely to get a call back for an apartment than Jamal or Abdul? The answer is most ...
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NodeXL / Network Workshop at UKSNA
9 June 2011
Author: Bernie Hogan
I’m giving a one day workshop at the upcoming UK Social Networks Association conference in Greenwich. The workshop is on Wednesday, July 6th. Registration ...
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OII Network course 2011: A Showcase
3 June 2011
Author: Bernie Hogan
For the second year in a row, I co-taught the OII’s Online Social Networks course with Dr. Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon. Again this year we had ...
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What you can and can’t get from Facebook
25 November 2010
Author: Bernie Hogan
I have had several interesting requests for my NameGen program, including the much maligned desktop application that is not really active development (pending future ...
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Facebook’s “Download your Information” reviewed
10 November 2010
Author: Bernie Hogan
As part of Facebook’s march to capture as much of your life as possible while making you feel okay about it, last month they ...
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(Face)Book week for Bernie
16 September 2010
Author: Bernie Hogan
Wow, what a week for Facebook and me! Nevermind the fact that results from the “So you want to be a scientist” project with ...
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New Pinwheel network layout
10 January 2010
Author: Bernie Hogan
I’m presently working on a chapter on Facebook networks for the forthcoming Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL edited by Marc Smith, Derek Hansen ...
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Press
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World in Progress: Wikipedia’s past, present and future – extended interview
13 January 2021 Deutsche Welle
Two decades on from its founding, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into one of the most popular open-source websites.
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The Great Facebook Boycott: Will it make any difference?
4 July 2020 Al Jazeera
Big brands are part of an advertising boycott against Facebook over racist content and hate speech. Plus, lockdown TV puts bookshelves in the spotlight.
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Coronavirus: Twitter will label Covid-19 fake news
12 May 2020 BBC News
Twitter has started putting warning messages on tweets containing misleading information about Covid-19.
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Facebook’s ‘supreme court’ members announced
6 May 2020 BBC News
Facebook has announced who will sit on an independent board, set up to have ultimate say over what controversial content should be taken down.
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This Is Why You Find Zoom Calls So Tiring
4 May 2020 Refinery 29
Video chats require a mix of identity work and preparation which makes them tiring.
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Time using landlines halves in five years, says Ofcom
5 January 2019 BBC News
"We've seen a shift in people, away from thinking of communication as place-based, towards something more personal," Dr Bernie Hogan, from the Oxford Internet Institute, told the BBC.
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Facebook gives users trustworthiness score
21 August 2018 BBC News
Facebook has confirmed that it has started scoring some of its members on a trustworthiness scale.
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Out of your league? Study shows online daters message more desirable people
9 August 2018 The Guardian
The majority of people using dating websites chase potential partners who are significantly more desirable than themselves, study shows
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Why Facebook Will Never Die
24 May 2018 BBC News
Despite scandals over fake news and data privacy, the social network is unlikely to disappear any time soon
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TED 2018: Fake Obama video creator defends invention
13 April 2018 BBC News
A researcher who created a fake video of President Obama has defended his invention at the latest TED talks.
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Was Facebook’s decision to cut off third-party developers genuinely virtuous?
12 April 2018 New Statesman
They effectively turned a social utility into little more than a marketing and media company with a messaging service, while framing it as a community.
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Spotify and Tinder need to stop being creepy with customer data
16 February 2018 Wired
Netflix, Spotify and Tinder have all been revealing personal details of customers in attempt to create viral marketing campaigns. Fun, right? Wrong
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Men who overuse internet damage their relationships – but women can use it to make relationships stronger
31 January 2018 Oxford Mail
Co-author Dr Bernie Hogan of the Oxford Internet Institute said men's internet activities were more likely to distract them from a relationship.
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What do we want? Consensual fun times. How do we get it? Via an app with blockchain…
11 January 2018 The Register
Bernie Hogan, of the Oxford Internet Institute, was less kind. "It's based on a flawed notion of consent; that it's something that can be done in the absence of context. It's a ridiculous idea that's doomed to failure."
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Has live streaming made it easier to hate each other online?
22 February 2017 The Debrief
‘It’s not that livestreaming is changing how we interact,’ says Dr Bernie Hogan. ‘It’s that we’re doing a bad job of creating technology that allows us to empathise with each other, when those others are different from us.’
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How Facebook divides us
27 October 2016 The Times Literary Supplement
Bernie Hogan considers how Facebook divides us, in the first part of a series in The Times Literary Supplement on the moral dimensions of modern life.
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Stay there: we’ll bring the UK school to you
19 April 2016 The Times
Bernie Hogan comments on proposals by an online secondary school to provide education in China
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Sina Weibo ends 140-character limit ahead of Twitter
20 January 2016 BBC Technology
Sina-Weibo, the most popular micro-blogging platform in China is dropping its 140 character limit for a single post. Twitter might be encouraged to do the same. Bernie Hogan comments.
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Dangerous liaisons: A peep into the illicit world of adult dating sites
22 September 2015 Management Today
Bernie Hogan comments in an article in the wake of the Ashley Madison hack about the risks of online adult dating.
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The Politics of Emoji Diversity
25 November 2014 Motherboard - Vice.com
Proposals have been put forward to diversify emoji, the digital images of faces used to denote expression, which are currently predominantly white. Bernie Hogan claims this will alter profoundly our understanding of emoji.
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The Spammers Who Chase After Autographs
13 November 2014 Motherboard - Vice.com
The practice of spamming to elicit autographs is increasing. Bernie Hogan speculates on what might be behind the trend.
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New apps make adultery harder to hide
18 October 2014 The Times
The Times reports on the development of apps to assist unfaithful partners cover their tracks whilst others assist the suspicious to check up on their partners. Bernie Hogan comments.
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Syrian beheading photos spur call for Facebook rethink
27 August 2014 BBC News Technology
Bernie Hogan is quoted in an article about graphic images of violence, in particular beheading, which appear on social media. He says that Facebook users should be better protected against distressing material.
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Middle aged follow the stars and learn to socialise on net
8 August 2014 The Times Technology
Bernie Hogan contributes to an article on the rapid rise of use of social media by middle-aged people. He suggests that increasing trust of technology maybe a contributing factor.
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Goosebump sensor developed by Korean research team
25 June 2014 BBC News Technology
A team in Korea has developed a device to measure goosebumps on the human body in real time. Bernie Hogan fears that it could be subverted by the entertainment industry leading to 'emotionally manipulative fluff'.
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#BBCtrending: Why does Facebook want you to vote?
22 May 2014 BBC News Trending
Facebook introduced an 'I'm a voter' button on the day of local and European elections in the UK and the Netherlands. Bernie Hogan says this feature will provide the company with valuable data as well as encouraging voter turnout.
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Could Emoji Ever Be a Language?
28 March 2014 Motherboard - Vice.com
Bernie Hogan is quoted in a piece about emoji, digital expressions of emotion, which form part of his research.
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Apple seeks greater emoji racial diversity
26 March 2014 BBC News Technology
Bernie Hogan says that there are problems with extending the diversity of emoji, digital icons representing emotion, but he says that it's fair to think that in terms of racial diversity the range should be extended.
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The algorithm method: how internet dating became everyone’s route to a perfect love match
9 February 2014 The Observer
The Observer looked at various online dating sites. eHarmony’s scientific, evidence based approach to matching couples is highlighted and research with the OII at the time of its launch is given as evidence of eHarmony’s serious approach.
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Facebook’s 10th birthday: from college dorm to 1.23 billion users
4 February 2014 The Guardian
The technology Editor of the Guardian looks at the first 10 years of Facebook. Bernie Hogan says that part of its success is timing because the world was ready for it.
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The Mark Forrest Show
25 November 2013 BBC radio
Bernie Hogan addresses the question of whether social media have a divisive influence on society with Mark Forrest on the early evening show (15.55 - 22.54 on the clock)
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Tinder: the app that’s changing the way singletons meet and fall in love
24 November 2013 The Observer
Tinder, a dating app which shows photographs of potential dates within a maximum distance set by the user, is the next step in internet dating says Bernie Hogan. It is more individualising than existing online dating sites he says.
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Tonight: Looking for Love
29 October 2013 ITV
ITV article (including online video) features comments from Dr Bernie Hogan who says online dating is no longer stigmatised; 30% of people looking for a partner do so online.
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Children to have Linkedin profiles
20 August 2013 BBC News Online
Bernie Hogan comments on the decision by the networking site, LinkedIn to drop its minimum age for membership from 18 to 13. He says it will help children differentiate between a public profile for employment and a personal profile.
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Use of Social Media May Hurt your Marriage
2 May 2013 HispanicBusiness.com
A report on Bernie Hogan’s work on the effect of social media on established relationships which he presented at a symposium at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society.
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Research in Brief
25 April 2013 The Guardian
Bernie Hogan's work on the impact of social media on strong relationships is included in the weekly research round-up.
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Study says computer talk is killing relationships
12 April 2013 News.com au
Report on Bernie Hogan's research on the impact of social media on relationships, quoting him as suggesting that marital disharmony could be caused by overuse of these media.
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Does Facebook put a strain on marriages?
11 April 2013 Daily Mail
Reporting on Bernie Hogan's findings on diverse communication and the impact on relationships the Daily Mail notes his suggestion that marital disharmony may be triggered by the stress of constantly maintaining many different forms of communication.
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Too Much Media Could Hurt Marriage
11 April 2013 Live Science
Bernie Hogan's research reports that some people find using more media is detrimental to their relationship.
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Social media. the perils and pleasures
11 April 2013 University of Oxford
Work by Bernie Hogan suggests that too much social media activity may damage strong relationships. He presented his findings as part of a symposium on the impact of online social media at the Annual Conference of British Psychological Society.
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Social media could make dents in your love life
10 April 2013 Economic Times (India)
Report on Bernie Hogan's research into the effects of the use of social media on relationships.
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Little love as dating websites face complaints over contracts
4 March 2013 Independent.ie
The European Consumer Centre in Dublin has seen a rise in the number of complaints since 2011 as more Irish singles use Internet dating sites. The report refers to the OII report 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet.'
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The 21 Winners Of The Facebook, Gates Foundation Education App Contest Are Making College Easier
29 January 2013 TechCrunch
College Connect, an app that visualizes social networks to help lower income students find better and more successful routes to university, is one of the winners of the College Knowledge Challenge. It was developed by an OII-MSU team.
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UK ‘too heavy-handed’ with Twitter and online trolls
20 August 2012 BBC Radio 1
In the aftermath of an abusive tweet aimed at UK Olympic diver, Tom Daley, Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1 took a look at reactions in the UK and other countries to online trolls. Bernie Hogan said the UK is 'incredibly heavy handed'.
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Wikipedia world: an interactive guide to every language. Infographic map
4 April 2012 The Guardian
In 'Show and Tell' on the Guardian Data Store, Simon Rogers, winner of the OII award for best internet journalist in 2011, highlights the Mapping Wikipedia project which shows millions of articles worldwide in a variety of languages.
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Money can’t buy me love – or can it?
13 February 2012 Irish Times
An article in the Irish Times timed for St Valentine's Day on the costs of dating refers to OII research on online dating.
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Trendfear: Do you ever feel you’re being left behind?
30 January 2012 BBC News
Can rapid innovation in technology create 'trendfear', a concern that we are missing out on something important? When is the tipping point when we need to know? Bernie Hogan comments that social media can make you feel you're missing the party.
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60 seconds with Bernie Hogan
31 October 2011 Oxford Today
The Oxford Alumni magazine interviews Bernie Hogan about social network sites and online relationships. He says the next step is to make the online world as natural as walking into a room full of friends.
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Internet dating increasingly used by middle-aged
28 October 2011 BBC Radio West Midlands
Bernie Hogan was interviewed by BBC Radio West Midlands morning news show about his study into online dating as part of the BBC "Give an Hour" initiative to help people online (from 42:00 on the iPlayer clock).
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The Plankton Generation
4 August 2011 Daily Mail
Bernie Hogan references OII research on online dating in an article on the dating prospects of middle-aged women and the partner choices of middle-aged men.
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Why trust logging on when you can talk to friends face to face?
19 June 2011 The Independent
Why have over 100,000 UK users of Facebook left the social network? In an article exploring possible reasons, Bernie Hogan suggests the site may be a victim of its own success.
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Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger?
17 June 2011 New Scientist
Could specialist gender checking software have revealed the author of the Gay Girl in Damascus blog to be a man? Bernie Hogan tells New Scientist that there is a useful role for this technology.
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Middle-aged are most likely to look for love online and a THIRD say they found partner on web
14 February 2011 Daily Mail
Coverage of an OII report on changes in online dating, part of the 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet' project.
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Internet makes matches made in heaven
14 February 2011 The Scotsman
Coverage of an OII report on changes in online dating, part of the 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet' project.
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Middle-aged people looking for love online
14 February 2011 The Times of India
Coverage of an OII report on changes in online dating, part of the 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet' project.
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Internet playing Cupid for middle-aged people:study
14 February 2011 Daily News and Analysis (India)
Coverage of an OII report on changes in online dating, part of the 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet' project.
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Bernie Hogan interviewed on Radio Oxford
14 February 2011 BBC Radio Oxford
Bernie Hogan discusses the findings of an OII report on online dating
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Bernie Hogan interviewed on Radio Kent
14 February 2011 BBC Radio Kent
Bernie Hogan discusses the findings of an OII report on online dating
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Middle aged most likely to seek love on the web
14 February 2011 Reuters
Coverage of an OII report on changes in online dating, part of the 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet' project.
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Middle-aged ‘look online for love’
14 February 2011 Press Association
Coverage of an OII report on changes in online dating, part of the 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet' project.
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