In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. ...
Social networking services are a fast-growing business in the Internet. However, it is unknown if online relationships and their growth patterns are the same as in real-life socia...
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Seungyeop Han, Haewoon Kwak, Sue B....
This research examines the privacy comfort levels of participants if others can view traces of their web browsing activity. During a week-long field study, participants used an el...
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...