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
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...
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...
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...
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, ...