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2011
ACM
12 years 9 months ago
Social capital increases efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors
In this study we measure the impact of pre-existing social capital on the efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors. To construct a social network among Wikipedians we l...
Keiichi Nemoto, Peter A. Gloor, Rob Laubacher
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Churn in Social Networks: A Discussion Boards Case Study
Churn has been identified as an important issue in a wide range of industries. In social networks, churn represents a significant risk for the health and functioning of communities...
Marcel Karnstedt, Tara Hennessy, Jeffrey Chan, Con...
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
NetWORKers and their Activity in Intensional Networks
Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
MM
2009
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Wearing a YouTube hat: directors, comedians, gurus, and user aggregated behavior
While existing studies on YouTube’s massive user-generated video content have mostly focused on the analysis of videos, their characteristics, and network properties, little att...
Joan-Isaac Biel, Daniel Gatica-Perez
IFIP
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
New Organizational Forms to Extend the Professional Active Life
A major challenge in effective active ageing support is to identify/design new organizational structures, approaches, and mechanisms so that on one hand older people do not feel ex...
Antonio del Cura, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Filipa ...