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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life
History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Identifying social capital in the facebook interface
A number of studies have identified a robust relationship between the use of social network sites, particularly Facebook, and positive outcomes such as social capital. Social netw...
Christian Yoder, Fred Stutzman
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
PeopleNet: engineering a wireless virtual social network
People often seek information by asking other people even when they have access to vast reservoirs of information such as the Internet and libraries. This is because people are gr...
Mehul Motani, Vikram Srinivasan, Pavan Nuggehalli
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Summarization of social activity over time: people, actions and concepts in dynamic networks
We present a framework for automatically summarizing social group activity over time. The problem is important in understanding large scale online social networks, which have dive...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Aisling Kelliher
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Disambiguating Web appearances of people in a social network
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Ron Bekkerman, Andrew McCallum