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BCSHCI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
News not noise: socially aware information filtering
An understanding of how people in social networks consume news media by and about their friends shows that information overload is soon going to be a major problem for many partic...
Jonathan Melhuish, Russell Beale
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy
Directed links in social media could represent anything from intimate friendships to common interests, or even a passion for breaking news or celebrity gossip. Such directed links...
Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabrício Benev...
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Truthy: mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have ...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bru...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Summarization of large scale social network activity
This paper presents a novel social media summarization framework. Summarizing media created and shared in large scale online social networks unfolds challenging research problems....
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Aisling Kelliher
FUN
2010
Springer
263views Algorithms» more  FUN 2010»
14 years 5 days ago
Fighting Censorship with Algorithms
In countries such as China or Iran where Internet censorship is prevalent, users usually rely on proxies or anonymizers to freely access the web. The obvious difficulty with this a...
Mohammad Mahdian