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HICSS
2006
IEEE
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15 years 5 months ago
The Impact of Social Types within Information Communities: Findings from Technical Newsgroups
We explored whether Fisher and Durrance’s [11] framework of information communities applies to online technical newsgroups and the impact of particular social types on informati...
Tammara Combs Turner, Karen E. Fisher
HICSS
2009
IEEE
127views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
A Conceptual and Operational Definition of 'Social Role' in Online Community
Both online and off, people frequently perform particular social roles. These roles organize behavior and give structure to positions in local networks. As more of social life bec...
Eric Gleave, Howard T. Welser, Thomas M. Lento, Ma...
IAT
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Redefining Social Network Services: A Solution to Personal Information and Knowledge Management
Instead of aiming at the augmentation of human communication abilities as other social software does, social network services (SNS) provide better chances for people to enhance th...
Tingting Jiang, Daqing He
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Social network activity and social well-being
Previous research has shown a relationship between use of social networking sites and feelings of social capital. However, most studies have relied on self-reports by college stud...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
ADC
2009
Springer
163views Database» more  ADC 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
ActiveTags: Making Tags More Useful Anywhere on the Web
Tags in social tagging systems store meaning for the taggers who have entered them, and other users often share this understanding. The result of this, a folksonomy, is typically ...
Stephan Hagemann, Gottfried Vossen