In this study we measure the impact of pre-existing social capital on the efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors. To construct a social network among Wikipedians we l...
Web is being extensively used for personal expression, which includes ratings, reviews, recommendations, blogs. This user created content, e.g. book review on Amazon.com, becomes ...
Abstract. Social interactions are one of the key factors to the success of conferences and similar community gatherings. This paper describes a novel application that integrates da...
Harith Alani, Martin Szomszor, Ciro Cattuto, Woute...
Abstract—Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. We perform an in-depth stu...
Social network systems on the Internet, such MySpace and LinkedIn, are growing in popularity around the world. The level of such activity is now comparable to that associated with...