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CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
To stay or leave?: the relationship of emotional and informational support to commitment in online health support groups
Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
Yi-Chia Wang, Robert Kraut, John M. Levine
CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Building a standpoints web to support decision-making in wikipedia
Although the Web enables large-scale collaboration, its potential to support group decision-making has not been fully exploited. My research aims to analyze, extract, and represen...
Jodi Schneider
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DIS
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
A Framework for Knowledge Discovery in a Society of Agents
Abstract. This paper proposes initial steps towards a generic framework for modeling the scientific process. It is generic according to two main axes. First, it can be instantiated...
Gauvain Bourgne, Vincent Corruble
CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Practices of information and secrecy in a punk rock subculture
By examining the information practices of a punk-rock subculture, we investigate the limits of social media systems, particularly limits exposed by practices of secrecy. Looking a...
Jessica Lingel, Aaron Trammell, Joe Sanchez, Mor N...
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Mining social networks using heat diffusion processes for marketing candidates selection
Social Network Marketing techniques employ pre-existing social networks to increase brands or products awareness through word-of-mouth promotion. Full understanding of social netw...
Hao Ma, Haixuan Yang, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King