Ethnography has become a staple feature of IT research over the last twenty years, shaping our understanding of the social character of computing systems and informing their desig...
Andy Crabtree, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Pa...
—In this paper, we propose E-Shadow, a distributed mobile phone-based local social networking system. E-Shadow has two main components: (1) Local profiles. They enable EShadow u...
Jin Teng, Boying Zhang, Xinfeng Li, Xiaole Bai, Do...
Most research regarding online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Linked-In and Friendster has looked at these networks in terms of activity within the online network, suc...
: Owing to the recent technical advances in the computing and mobile communications domain, the world of online virtual communities is experiencing a phenomenal growth and ever-inc...
Pravin Pawar, Julien Subercaze, Pierre Maret, Bert...
In this paper we describe the development of a platform that enables us to systematically study online social networks alongside their real-world counterparts. Our system, entitle...