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CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Communities real and imagined: designing a communication system for zimbabwean activists
In this paper, I describe how various understandings of community activated the design of Dialup Radio, a mobile phonebased independent media distribution system for Zimbabwean ci...
Tad Hirsch
CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Please help!: patterns of personalization in an online tech support board
We analyze help-seeking strategies in two large tech support boards and observe a number of previously unreported differences between tech support boards and other types of online...
Sarita Yardi, Erika Shehan Poole
CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
And the ringleaders were banned: an examination of protest in virtual worlds
Protest has made the jump between the offline and the online spaces and is frequently used in most virtual worlds available today. Despite the frequency of these protest actions i...
Bridget Marie Blodgett
CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Analyzing (social media) networks with NodeXL
We present NodeXL, an extendible toolkit for network overview, discovery and exploration implemented as an add-in to the Microsoft Excel 2007 spreadsheet software. We demonstrate ...
Marc A. Smith, Ben Shneiderman, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Empowering rural citizen journalism via web 2.0 technologies
Once acquainted with the modern information and communication tools made available with the advent of the Internet, five Brazilian rural communities participating in a pilot proje...
Marco A. Figueiredo, Paola Prado, Mauro A. Câ...
CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Spinning online: a case study of internet broadcasting by DJs
David A. Shamma, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Nikhil Bo...
CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
The conference room as a toolbox: technological and social routines in corporate meeting spaces
HCI, CSCW, and ubicomp researchers have developed new technologies and interaction techniques to support collaboration, ranging from electronic whiteboards to software supporting ...
Christopher Plaue, John T. Stasko, Mark Baloga
CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Supporting community engagement in the city: urban planning in the MR-tent
Urban design today faces complex demands. It has become a necessity to negotiate between stakeholder objectives, the expectations of citizens, and the demands of planning. In this...
Ina Wagner, Maria Basile, Lisa Ehrenstrasser, Val&...
CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Measuring self-focus bias in community-maintained knowledge repositories
Self-focus is a novel way of understanding a type of bias in community-maintained Web 2.0 graph structures. It goes beyond previous measures of topical coverage bias by encapsulat...
Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle