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1998
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
HYDRANET : Network Support for Scaling of Large-Scale Services
With the explosive growth of demand for services on the Internet, the networking infrastructure (routers, protocols, servers) is under considerable stress. Mechanisms are needed f...
Hamesh Chawla, Geoff Dillon, Riccardo Bettati
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ISI
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Social media and social reality
Social Media provide an exciting and novel view into social phenomena. The vast amounts of data that can be gathered from the Internet coupled with massively parallel supercomputer...
William N. Reynolds, Marta S. Weber, Robert M. Far...
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CORR
2007
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
EDBT
2009
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
Efficient identification of starters and followers in social media
Activity and user engagement in social media such as web logs, wikis, online forums or social networks has been increasing at unprecedented rates. In relation to social behavior i...
Michael Mathioudakis, Nick Koudas
CHI
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Friendster and publicly articulated social networking
This paper presents ethnographic fieldwork on Friendster, an online dating site utilizing social networks to encourage friend-of-friend connections. I discuss how Friendster appli...
Danah Boyd