Online communities are connecting large numbers of individuals and generating rich social network data, opening the way for empirical studies of social behavior. In this paper, we ...
Social media are constructed from the collective contributions of potentially millions of individuals and present an increasingly common and large scale form of database. As these...
—The success of a Public Key Infrastructure such as the Web of Trust (WoT) heavily depends on its ability to ensure that public keys are used by their legitimate owners, thereby ...
Empirical research on human behavior in collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) is in its infancy. Historically, one of the more valuable tools social scientists have used to ev...
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...