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CORR
2008
Springer
158views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Community Detection using a Measure of Global Influence
Abstract. The growing popularity of online social networks gave researchers access to large amount of network data and renewed interest in methods for automatic community detection...
Rumi Ghosh, Kristina Lerman
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Friends and foes: ideological social networking
Traditional online social network sites use a single monolithic "friends" relationship to link users. However, users may have more in common with strangers, suggesting t...
Gábor Szabó, Michael J. Brzozowski, ...
DIGRA
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Game Tips as Gifts: Social Interactions and Rational Calculations in Computer Gaming
The authors look at online tip exchanges as parts of gift economies created by the players and designers of console and online role-playing games in Taiwan. A group of experienced...
Chuen-Tsai Sun, Holin Lin, Cheng-Hong Ho
KDD
2006
ACM
179views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
KDD
2009
ACM
227views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
User grouping behavior in online forums
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
Xiaolin Shi, Jun Zhu, Rui Cai, Lei Zhang