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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Augmented social cognition: using social web technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
Ed H. Chi
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Getting Online but Still Living Offline: The Complex Relationship of Technology Adoption and In-person Social Networks
Previous research in Kyrgyzstan has demonstrated the importance of close social networks as avenues for gathering and sharing information, assistance and goods in the country. How...
Cynthia Putnam, Beth E. Kolko
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Information Technology and the Cultural Reproduction of Social Order: A Research Paradigm
This paper introduces the critical social theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The objective of Bourdieu's theoretical framework is to uncover the buried organizatio...
Lynette Kvasny, Duane P. Truex
ICDS
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Personalizing Education in Post-Industrial Society
—The paper deals with significant technological changes in society when it moves into Post-Industrial age. Some of these changes have fundamental social consequences. The paper a...
Ilya Levin, Andrei Kojukhov