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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much
Is a polarized society inevitable, where people choose to be exposed to only political news and commentary that reinforces their existing viewpoints? We examine the relationship b...
Sean A. Munson, Paul Resnick
ICONFERENCE
2012
11 years 12 months ago
Online social networks in a post-Soviet state: how Hungarians protect and share on Facebook
As Facebook has become global, users from different cultural and socio-political contexts have joined the site. We present a case study investigating how both current and historic...
Blase Ur, Yang Wang
WSDM
2012
ACM
309views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
11 years 12 months ago
Mining contrastive opinions on political texts using cross-perspective topic model
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
Yi Fang, Luo Si, Naveen Somasundaram, Zhengtao Yu
COMMA
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Political Engagement Through Tools for Argumentation
In this paper we discuss the development of tools to support a system for edemocracy that is based upon and makes use of existing theories of argument representation and evaluatio...
Dan Cartwright, Katie Atkinson
SIGCPR
2003
ACM
106views Hardware» more  SIGCPR 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Triple jeopardy: race, gender and class politics of women in technology
In this paper, I consider how class, race, and gender influence perspectives regarding information technology (IT). I do so by considering how participants in a community technolo...
Lynette Kvasny