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Visiting professor discusses progression of online social networks

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, when most Americans were checking Twitter for updates on the manhunt, Boston College professor Jerry Kane was checking Twitter to analyze the network itself.

At a research colloquium hosted by the School of Information on Tuesday, Kane spoke about what social media technology has done to modern human relationships.

Social media provides us this power to visualize, quantify and analyze the network structure of our connections better than traditional networks. So - if we were to conduct a survey in this room right now - you're pretty good at saying who your friends are, but maybe not so good at identifying who your friend's friends are.

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