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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in slashdot
We analyze the social network emerging from the user comment activity on the website Slashdot. The network presents common features of traditional social networks such as a giant ...
Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Vicenç Gómez,...
GI
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Perspectives on Tag Clouds for Supporting Reflection in Self-organised Learning
: Tags are popular for organising information in social software based on the personal views of the participants on the information. Tags provide valuable attention meta-data on a ...
Christian Glahn, Marcus Specht, Rob Koper
KBSE
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A survey of social software engineering
Software engineering is a complex sociotechnical activity, due to the need for discussing and sharing knowledge among team members. This has raised the need for effective ways of ...
Navid Ahmadi, Mehdi Jazayeri, Francesco Lelli, Sas...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
96views Education» more  SIGCSE 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Teaching computation to undergraduate scientists
This paper describes the motivation and design of an introductory computational course for natural, physical, and social scientists. Categories and Subject Descriptors: K.3.2 Comp...
Daniel T. Kaplan
HICSS
2006
IEEE
100views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
The Impact of Social Types within Information Communities: Findings from Technical Newsgroups
We explored whether Fisher and Durrance’s [11] framework of information communities applies to online technical newsgroups and the impact of particular social types on informati...
Tammara Combs Turner, Karen E. Fisher