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CE
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
The distance from isolation: Why communities are the logical conclusion in e-learning
This paper argues that the internet is built around key technology design features of openness, robustness and decentralisation. These design features have transformed into social...
Martin Weller
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Questions in, knowledge in?: a study of naver's question answering community
Large general-purposed community question-answering sites are becoming popular as a new venue for generating knowledge and helping users in their information needs. In this paper ...
Kevin Kyung Nam, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Putting systems into place: a qualitative study of design requirements for location-aware community systems
We present a conceptual framework for location-aware community systems and results from two studies of how sociallydefined places influence people's information sharing and c...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Steve Whittak...
ASWC
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Community Focused Social Network Extraction
Abstract. A social networking service can become the basis for the information infrastructure of the future. For that purpose, it is important to extract social networks that refle...
Masahiro Hamasaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Keisuke Ishida, ...
INTERNET
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Deploying Rural Community Wireless Mesh Networks
The lack of adequate Internet provision in rural areas is widening the digital divide between town and country. This is proving detrimental to social communication as well as the a...
Johnathan Ishmael, Sara Bury, Dimitrios P. Pezaros...