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ICMCS
2009
IEEE
185views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
Connecting content to community in social media via image content, user tags and user communication
In this paper we develop a recommendation framework to connect image content with communities in online social media. The problem is important because users are looking for useful...
Munmun De Choudhury, Hari Sundaram, Yu-Ru Lin, Aji...
CORR
2008
Springer
158views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Community Detection using a Measure of Global Influence
Abstract. The growing popularity of online social networks gave researchers access to large amount of network data and renewed interest in methods for automatic community detection...
Rumi Ghosh, Kristina Lerman
ETS
2000
IEEE
182views Hardware» more  ETS 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
Conferencing in communities of learners: examples from social history and science communication
A commonly encountered view of computer conferencing focuses on peer interaction, student empowerment and a shift in both teacher and student roles. This paper argues that this vi...
Ann C. Jones, Eileen Scanlon, Canan Tosunoglu Blak...
CANDT
2009
14 years 1 months ago
Supportive communication, sense of virtual community and health outcomes in online infertility groups
Women are turning to online health groups to deal with the stresses and complications of infertility. Online groups may provide a resource that is potentially absent in their face...
Jennifer L. Welbourne, Anita L. Blanchard, Marla D...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Characteristics of shared health reflections in a local community
We performed a content analysis of the information shared in a locally and culturally focused health application, EatWell. In EatWell, information is shared via the creation of au...
Andrea Grimes, Brian M. Landry, Rebecca E. Grinter