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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
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 ...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
SDM
2009
SIAM
104views Data Mining» more  SDM 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
On Randomness Measures for Social Networks.
Social networks tend to contain some amount of randomness and some amount of non-randomness. The amount of randomness versus non-randomness affects the properties of a social netw...
Xiaowei Ying, Xintao Wu
HICSS
2008
IEEE
126views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Investigation of Knowledge Creation in Electronic Networks of Practice: Social Capital and Theory of Planned Behavi
How to achieve knowledge creation effectively remains a problem, this becomes even more difficult in a loosely knitted community such as networks of practice. This is because know...
Shih-Wei Chou, Yu-Chieh Chang
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
ViralVCD: tracing information-diffusion paths with low cost media in developing communities
We describe ViralVCD: a low cost method for tracing paths of information diffusion in developing communities using physical media. We instituted a participatory video framework fo...
Nithya Sambasivan, Ed Cutrell, Kentaro Toyama
IIE
2008
188views more  IIE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Exploring Individual and Collaborative Dimensions of Knowledge Building in an Online Learning Community of Practice
Abstract. An exploratory study of students' engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of stude...
Lina Markauskaite, Louise M. Sutherland