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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Practices of information and secrecy in a punk rock subculture
By examining the information practices of a punk-rock subculture, we investigate the limits of social media systems, particularly limits exposed by practices of secrecy. Looking a...
Jessica Lingel, Aaron Trammell, Joe Sanchez, Mor N...
ICDM
2010
IEEE
202views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Discovering Overlapping Groups in Social Media
Abstract--The increasing popularity of social media is shortening the distance between people. Social activities, e.g., tagging in Flickr, bookmarking in Delicious, twittering in T...
Xufei Wang, Lei Tang, Huiji Gao, Huan Liu
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
ViralVCD: tracing information-diffusion paths with low cost media in developing communities
We describe ViralVCD: a low cost method for tracing paths of information diffusion in developing communities using physical media. We instituted a participatory video framework fo...
Nithya Sambasivan, Ed Cutrell, Kentaro Toyama
ICMCS
2009
IEEE
153views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2009»
13 years 3 months ago
Temporal patterns in social media streams: Theme discovery and evolution using joint analysis of content and context
Online social networking sites such as Flickr and Facebook provide a diverse range of functionalities that foster online communities to create and share media content. In particul...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Munmun De Choudhury, Ais...