Members of the collaboration are organising a workshop at the 3rd annual international conference on social computing and its applications.

Members of the collaboration have been awarded funding under the National Centre for Research Methods programme. The Social Media and Prediction: Crime Sensing, Data Integration and Statistical Modelling project will further develop the repurposing of user generated social media data for social research by developing innovative methodological and computational tools for establishing the link between online and offline behaviour. This will entail building statistical models based on social media data that predict offline social phenomena.

We are very pleased to announce that our work with the Guardian was the winner in the Data Visualization and Storytelling - National/International category of the inaugural Data Journalism Awards at the Global Editors Network News World Summit. See also the Guardian's coverage of all the winning entries.

Our work with the Guardian has been shortlisted for three awards: Data Visualization and Storytelling - National/International category of the inaugural Data Journalism Awards; Best use of social media - Online Media Awards; Reading The Riots: Twitter Analysis - Association of Online Publishers

We are collaborating with the Cardiff Online Social Media Observatory (COSMOS) on social media analysis platform and tools development, and research projects.

We have been awarded a new grant from the JISC to develop our social media analysis platform and toolset. More details shortly.

Today, we will present our findings at a conference organised by the Guardian and the LSE in London at which - amongst others - Ed Milliband, Theresa May, and Yvette Cooper are also scheduled to speak. The Guardian will provide live coverage of the event through blog posts and you can find the report on the Guardian/LSE study here (PDF here)The slides from the conference are online as well now.

Over the past few days we have been working closely with the Interactive Team at the Guardian to produce an interactive for their website that illustrates how rumors appear and spread on Twitter, how they are questioned and challenged and eventually disappear. There are accompanying articles by Jonathan Richards and Paul Lewis on the specific rumours covered and an article by our own Rob Procter on the analysis of the Twitter data.