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SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Structural Predictors of Tie Formation in Twitter: Transitivity and Mutuality
-- New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formati...
Scott A. Golder, Sarita Yardi
HICSS
2009
IEEE
129views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Identifying Organizational Knowledge Paths through Social Network Lens: Synthesis of Multi-Industry Case Studies
Unlike the common belief that knowledge flows mainly along the formal organizational hierarchy, recent research has pointed out an informal social network among organizational mem...
Young-Gul Kim, Sung-Byung Yang, Yong-Sauk Hau, Jeo...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
A Comparison of Information Seeking Using Search Engines and Social Networks
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Pano...
KDD
2008
ACM
224views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
The structure of information pathways in a social communication network
Social networks are of interest to researchers in part because they are thought to mediate the flow of information in communities and organizations. Here we study the temporal dyn...
Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon M. Kleinberg, Duncan J. Wat...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
What makes conversations interesting?: themes, participants and consequences of conversations in online social media
Rich media social networks promote not only creation and consumption of media, but also communication about the posted media item. What causes a conversation to be interesting, th...
Ajita John, Dorée D. Seligmann, Hari Sundar...