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ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace
Microblogging has recently generated a lot of research interest. Yet very little is known about how corporate employees use microblogging tools. This study examined microblogging ...
Kate Ehrlich, N. Sadat Shami
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Trading Strategies to Exploit Blog and News Sentiment
We use quantitative media (blogs, and news as a comparison) data generated by a large-scale natural language processing (NLP) text analysis system to perform a comprehensive and c...
Wenbin Zhang, Steven Skiena
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Comparing Information Diffusion Structure in Weblogs and Microblogs
To better understand and characterize the emerging social medium of microblogging we conducted a comparison between Twitter and a weblog network for their respective information d...
Jiang Yang, Scott Counts
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
User Acceptance of Micro-Blogging in the Enterprise
In this paper, following the IT acceptance theory framework, we analyze factors that affect users' acceptance of micro-blogging in a large corporate environment. We categoriz...
Jun Zhang, Yan Qu, Derek Hansen
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Characterizing Microblogs with Topic Models
As microblogging grows in popularity, services like Twitter are coming to support information gathering needs above and beyond their traditional roles as social networks. But most...
Daniel Ramage, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series
We connect measures of public opinion measured from polls with sentiment measured from text. We analyze several surveys on consumer confidence and political opinion over the 2008 ...
Brendan O'Connor, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Bryan R...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Why do Users Tag? Detecting Users' Motivation for Tagging in Social Tagging Systems
While recent progress has been achieved in understanding the structure and dynamics of social tagging systems, we know little about the underlying user motivations for tagging, an...
Markus Strohmaier, Christian Körner, Roman Ke...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Widespread Worry and the Stock Market
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling Group Dynamics in Virtual Worlds
In this study, we examine human social interactions within virtual worlds and address the question of how group interactions are affected by the surrounding game environment. To i...
Fahad Shah, Gita Reese Sukthankar, Chris Usher
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Sequential Influence Models in Social Networks
The spread of influence among individuals in a social network can be naturally modeled in a probabilistic framework, but it is challenging to reason about differences between vari...
Dan Cosley, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kleinbe...