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JASIS
1998
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15 years 1 months ago
Electronic News Delivery Project
An appreciation of the roles of genre and task is important in understanding how people browse the Web. Genre is characterized by content and form and is intimately linked to the ...
Carolyn R. Watters, Michael A. Shepherd, Forbes J....
IIE
2008
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15 years 1 months ago
Exploring Individual and Collaborative Dimensions of Knowledge Building in an Online Learning Community of Practice
Abstract. An exploratory study of students' engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of stude...
Lina Markauskaite, Louise M. Sutherland
ICWSM
2010
14 years 12 months ago
Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment
Twitter is a microblogging website where users read and write millions of short messages on a variety of topics every day. This study uses the context of the German federal electi...
Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp G. Sa...
JCDL
2004
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Sharing encountered information: digital libraries get a social life
As part of a more extensive study of reading-related practices, we have explored how people share information they encounter in their everyday reading as a complement to the more ...
Catherine C. Marshall, Sara A. Bly
PODC
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Adaptive randomized mutual exclusion in sub-logarithmic expected time
Mutual exclusion is a fundamental distributed coordination problem. Shared-memory mutual exclusion research focuses on local-spin algorithms and uses the remote memory references ...
Danny Hendler, Philipp Woelfel