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MDM
2009
Springer
269views Communications» more  MDM 2009»
14 years 10 days ago
R-U-In? - Exploiting Rich Presence and Converged Communications for Next-Generation Activity-Oriented Social Networking
—With the growing popularity of social networking, traditional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Telecom operators have both started exploring new opportunities to boost thei...
Nilanjan Banerjee, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Koustuv D...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Measuring the impact of third place attachment on the adoption of a place-based community technology
CoCollage is a placed-based community technology that leverages the power of online social networking to facilitate awareness and face-to-face interactions in a third place. We ad...
Shelly Farnham, Joseph F. McCarthy, Yagnesh Patel,...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Where there's a will there's a way: mobile media sharing in urban india
We present the results of a qualitative study of the sharing and consumption of entertainment media on low-cost mobile phones in urban India, a practice which has evolved into a v...
Thomas N. Smyth, Satish Kumar, Indrani Medhi, Kent...
KDD
2009
ACM
227views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 6 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
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 9 months ago
Computing political preference among twitter followers
Through anecdotal evidence and a variety of methods, claims are constantly being made about the bias of media outlets. As many of those outlets create online personas, we seek to ...
Jennifer Golbeck, Derek L. Hansen