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CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 25 days ago
Friendster and publicly articulated social networking
This paper presents ethnographic fieldwork on Friendster, an online dating site utilizing social networks to encourage friend-of-friend connections. I discuss how Friendster appli...
Danah Boyd
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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Deliberate interactions: characterizing technology use in Nairobi, Kenya
We present results from a qualitative study examining how professionals living and working in Nairobi, Kenya regularly use ICT in their everyday lives. There are two contributions...
Susan Wyche, Thomas N. Smyth, Marshini Chetty, Pau...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Ordering innovators and laggards for product categorization and recommendation
Different buyers exhibit different purchasing behaviors. Some rush to purchase new products while others tend to be more cautious, waiting for reviews from people they trust. In...
Sarah K. Tyler, Shenghuo Zhu, Yun Chi, Yi Zhang
BCSHCI
2009
15 years 1 months ago
"A little silly and empty-headed": older adults' understandings of social networking sites
This study suggests reasons for the absence of a growing proportion of the population, the so-called baby boomers, from the otherwise highly popular social networking sites. We ex...
Vilma Lehtinen, Jaana Näsänen, Risto Sar...
SP
2009
IEEE
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15 years 7 months ago
De-anonymizing Social Networks
Operators of online social networks are increasingly sharing potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and da...
Arvind Narayanan, Vitaly Shmatikov