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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Practices of information and secrecy in a punk rock subculture
By examining the information practices of a punk-rock subculture, we investigate the limits of social media systems, particularly limits exposed by practices of secrecy. Looking a...
Jessica Lingel, Aaron Trammell, Joe Sanchez, Mor N...
AAMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Norms and plans as unification criteria for social collectives
Abstract. Based on the formal-ontological paradigm of Constructive Descriptions and Situations, we propose a definition of social collectives that includes social agents, plans, no...
Aldo Gangemi
KDD
2009
ACM
379views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 5 days ago
MetaFac: community discovery via relational hypergraph factorization
This paper aims at discovering community structure in rich media social networks, through analysis of time-varying, multi-relational data. Community structure represents the laten...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
MMS
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Privacy-sensitive recognition of group conversational context with sociometers
Recognizing the conversational context in which group interactions unfold has applications in machines that support collaborative work and perform automatic social inference using ...
Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Taemie Kim, Alex Pentland, D...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
172views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Computing in context: integrating an embedded computing project into a course on ethical and societal issues
A hands-on embedded computing project is introduced into an undergraduate social sciences course. In the pilot module, nine student teams created working prototypes, using the tec...
Fred G. Martin, Sarah Kuhn