Online social sharing sites are becoming very popular nowadays among Web users, who use these sites to share their favourite items and to discover interesting and useful items fro...
In this paper, we conducted a systematic comparative analysis of language in different contexts of bursty topics, including web search, news media, blogging, and social bookmarkin...
Social hierarchy and stratification among humans is a well studied concept in sociology. The popularity of online social networks presents an opportunity to study social hierarch...
Mangesh Gupte, Pravin Shankar, Jing Li, S. Muthukr...
As online communities, such as social network sites, mature, they face challenges in sustaining user engagement. To address this, we designed and deployed a rating system to encou...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
User profiles on today's social networking sites support only a small set of predefined questions. We report on an alternative way for users to richly describe themselves, by...
Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Michael J. Muller, Joan...