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CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
See friendship, sort of: how conversation and digital traces might support reflection on friendships
Inspired by conversational visualization tools and the increasing enactment of relationships in social media, we examine how people reflect on friendships and how social data and ...
Victoria Schwanda Sosik, Xuan Zhao, Dan Cosley
CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Between us and them: building connectedness within civic networks
Civic networks of community-based organizations face significant challenges in working together to combat issues facing their community (e.g., gang violence, sex trafficking). In ...
Jennifer Stoll, W. Keith Edwards, Kirsten A. Foot
CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Removing gamification from an enterprise SNS
Gamification, the use of game mechanics in non-gaming applications, has been applied to various systems to encourage desired user behaviors. In this paper, we examine patterns of ...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, David R. Millen, Joan Morr...
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Information Flow and Search in Unstructured Keyword Based Social Networks
—In online social networks (OSNs), user connections can be represented as a network. The network formed has distinct properties that distinguish it from other network topologies....
Ankush Garg, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Charles U. Mar...
SDM
2009
SIAM
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15 years 7 months ago
Measuring Discrimination in Socially-Sensitive Decision Records.
Discrimination in social sense (e.g., against minorities and disadvantaged groups) is the subject of many laws worldwide, and it has been extensively studied in the social and eco...
Dino Pedreschi, Franco Turini, Salvatore Ruggieri