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JASIS
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
The conduit metaphor and the nature and politics of information studies
: This article examines information theory from the aspect of its "conduit metaphor." A historical approach and a close reading of certain texts by Warren Weaver and Nor...
Ronald E. Day
WSDM
2012
ACM
309views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 11 days 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
ECIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Politics in packaged software implementation
The academic literature relating to the political issues of information systems is fairly well established. However, there are relatively few empirical studies relating to the pol...
Christopher Bull
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Differences in the mechanics of information diffusion across topics: idioms, political hashtags, and complex contagion on twitte
There is a widespread intuitive sense that different kinds of information spread differently on-line, but it has been difficult to evaluate this question quantitatively since it ...
Daniel M. Romero, Brendan Meeder, Jon M. Kleinberg
SIGCPR
2003
ACM
106views Hardware» more  SIGCPR 2003»
13 years 10 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