History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
Video conferencing is a technology that families and friends use to connect with each other over distance. However, even with such technology readily available, we still do not ha...
User profiles on today's social networking sites support only a small set of predefined questions. We report on an alternative way for users to richly describe themselves, by...
Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Michael J. Muller, Joan...
Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...