Aliakbar Akbaritabar is a visiting PhD student from Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, in LUSSI department of Telecom-Bretagne (Brest), one of the research centers part of the M@rsouin Network. His PhD thesis deals with Social Capital embedded in Online Social Networks. In order to analyze this “virtual social capital”, Aliakbar has developed an application (Social village) aiming at gathering data from Facebook/Google+ users’ account. You can see (and spread out !) English, French and Persian versions of the application here.
Aliakbar kindly gave us an interview in which he describes the purpose of his research and of his visit to LUSSI, one of the research centers part of the M@rsouin Network.
Lire la traduction de l’interview en français.
