The described dissertation focuses on social regulation of user behavior within virtual social spaces. A multi-year field study of two fantasy-based game MUDs (multi-user dungeons...
Abstract. Social software is known to stimulate the exchange and sharing of information among peers. This paper describes how an existing system that supports process builders in c...
We develop a game-theoretic framework for the study of competition between firms who have budgets to “seed” the initial adoption of their products by consumers located in a s...
Emerging technologies increasingly provide opportunities for creating and maintaining social relations with people even though separated by time or distance. However, it is still ...
The rise of social media sites — blogs, wikis, and Digg — underscores the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are collaboratively creating, eval...