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ICWSM
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Zeynep Tufekci
CORR
2008
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
Mining User Profiles to Support Structure and Explanation in Open Social Networking
The proliferation of media sharing and social networking websites has brought with it vast collections of site-specific user generated content. The result is a Social Networking Di...
Avare Stewart, Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl
CSCW
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Egalitarians at the gate: one-sided gatekeeping practices in social media
Although Wikipedia has increasingly attracted attention for its in-depth and timely coverage of breaking news stories, the social dynamics of how Wikipedia editors process breakin...
Brian Keegan, Darren Gergle
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 days ago
A Broad-Coverage Normalization System for Social Media Language
Social media language contains huge amount and wide variety of nonstandard tokens, created both intentionally and unintentionally by the users. It is of crucial importance to norm...
Fei Liu, Fuliang Weng, Xiao Jiang