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KDD
2006
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Structure and evolution of online social networks
In this paper, we consider the evolution of structure within large online social networks. We present a series of measurements of two such networks, together comprising in excess ...
Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Andrew Tomkins
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
How oversight improves member-maintained communities
Online communities need regular maintenance activities such as moderation and data input, tasks that typically fall to community owners. Communities that allow all members to part...
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Sara B. Kiesler, Loren...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Friendster and publicly articulated social networking
This paper presents ethnographic fieldwork on Friendster, an online dating site utilizing social networks to encourage friend-of-friend connections. I discuss how Friendster appli...
Danah Boyd
HICSS
2005
IEEE
129views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
An Integrated Approach to Online Partnership Building
Research in information sciences in recent years has dealt with how to support collaborative work across time, space and organizational boundaries. However, this research neglecte...
Tobias Keim, Tim Weitzel
CHI
2000
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The social life of small graphical chat spaces
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
Marc A. Smith, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker