User retention is important to the success of online social media, particularly in virtual world settings where users shape one another’s online experience. We study a rich set ...
In this paper we propose a new class of attacks that exploit advertising systems offering microtargeting capabilities in order to breach user privacy. We study the advertising syst...
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
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...
We study a novel problem of social context summarization for Web documents. Traditional summarization research has focused on extracting informative sentences from standard docume...
Zi Yang, Keke Cai, Jie Tang, Li Zhang, Zhong Su, J...