Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd, Assistant Professor at the School of Information Management and Director of the Social Media Lab at Dalhousie University, has been awarded a $25,000 grant for 2011 from the GRAND research network. GRAND is a federally-funded Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) research network and commercialization engine whose goal is to address complex issues in digital media and transform multidisciplinary research into user-centred solutions.

In GRAND, Dr. Gruzd is involved with three projects: Digital Infrastructures (DINS), Media Enabled Organizational Workflow (MEOW) and Network Assessment and Validation for Effective Leadership (NAVEL). On these projects, Dr. Gruzd’s role is to develop and evaluate various automated text mining techniques and visualization tools for uncovering and representing online social networks to provide researchers, managers and other information seekers with additional insights into the behaviours and role of online network members and their relationships to each other.

Dr. Gruzd is also the Principal Investigator of a $161,000, three-year research grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to study how online social media and other web 2.0 technologies are changing the ways scholars communicate and disseminate information.

For further information, please contact
Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd
gruzd@dal.ca