ICWSM
2010
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2010
We present an application for accessing and creating socially constructed sets of information. Users store and retrieve information, such as bits of text, through the use of "...
ICWSM
2010
2010
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
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There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Microblogging concurrently with live media events is becoming commonplace. The resulting comment stream represents a parallel, social conversational reflection on the event. Altho...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Social media sites derive their value by providing a popular and dependable community for participants to engage, share, and interact. This community value and related services li...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
In many collaborative systems, researchers are interested in creating representative user profiles. In this paper, we are particularly interested in using social labeling and auto...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
This research explored the transition of romantic relationships from meeting online to the first face-to-face date. It is inevitable that impressions of a partner will change to s...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Users of online communities are commonly classified into active members versus lurkers. In this work we experiment with a method designed to encourage lurkers to share their acqui...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
This paper examines tweets about two geographically local events--a shooting and a building collapse--that took place in Wichita, Kansas and Atlanta, Georgia, respectively. Most I...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
In this paper we aim to model the relationship between the text of a political blog post and the comment volume--that is, the total amount of response--that a post will receive. W...