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USS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls with User-Generated Content
Oppressive regimes and even democratic governments restrict Internet access. Existing anti-censorship systems often require users to connect through proxies, but these systems are...
Sam Burnett, Nick Feamster, Santosh Vempala
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Toponym Resolution in Social Media
Increasingly user-generated content is being utilised as a source of information, however each individual piece of content tends to contain low levels of information. In addition, ...
Neil Ireson, Fabio Ciravegna
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Circumventing censorship with collage
Oppressive regimes and even democratic governments restrict Internet access. Existing anti-censorship systems often require users to connect through proxies, but these systems are...
Sam Burnett, Nick Feamster, Santosh Vempala
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Narrative, memory and practice: tensions and choices in the use of a digital artefact
This paper reports on research into the use of SenseCam, a wearable automatic camera. Household members were given multiple SenseCams to enable an exploration of how the device wo...
Siân E. Lindley, Dave W. Randall, Wes Sharro...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
"Narrowcast yourself": designing for community storytelling in a rural Indian context
The StoryBank project is examining technologies and practices to allow digitally impoverished communities to take part in the user-generated content revolution. The approach invol...
Matt Jones, Will Harwood, David Bainbridge, George...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
"Take One Get One Free": Leveraging P2P Networks for Content Promotion
— The nature of digital content is undergoing a radical transformation due to the growing infusion of user-generated content. Users that generate content have a strong motivation...
Himabindu Pucha, Sabyasachi Roy, Y. Charlie Hu
JCDL
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Mobility, digital libraries and a rural indian village
Millions of people in developed countries routinely create and share digital content; but what about the billions of others in on the wrong side of what has been called the ‘glo...
Matt Jones, Emma Thom, David Bainbridge, David Fro...
MHCI
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fixed in time and "time in motion": mobility of vision through a SenseCam lens
SenseCam is an automatic wearable camera, often seen as a tool for the creation of digital memories. In this paper, we report findings from a field trial in which SenseCams were w...
Siân E. Lindley, Richard H. R. Harper, David...