Sciweavers

34 search results - page 1 / 7
» Leveraging Social Foci for Information Seeking in Social Med...
Sort
View
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Leveraging social context for searching social media
The ability to utilize and benefit from today's explosion of social media sites depends on providing tools that allow users to productively participate. In order to participa...
Marc Smith, Vladimir Barash, Lise Getoor, Hady Wir...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Information Seeking Using Search Engines and Social Networks
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 ...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Pano...
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?
Navigating through the ever-changing information space is becoming increasingly difficult. Social navigation support is a technique for guiding users to interesting and relevant in...
Rosta Farzan, Peter Brusilovsky
DGO
2011
285views Education» more  DGO 2011»
12 years 4 months ago
Social media use by government: from the routine to the critical
Social media (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) and other services with user-generated content have made a staggering amount of information (and misinformation) available....
Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Edward A. Fox, Steven D. Shee...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Mobile Social Software for the Developing World
This paper discusses how the importance of social networks for performing everyday tasks in the developing world leads to new considerations of the utility of social networking sof...
Beth E. Kolko, Erica J. Johnson, Emma J. Rose