—Distributed systems without trusted identities are particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks, where an adversary creates multiple bogus identities to compromise the running of th...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
Geocaching is a location-based activity that has been practiced for a number of years. As a sustained and established activity it represents an important opportunity for understan...
This paper argues that the internet is built around key technology design features of openness, robustness and decentralisation. These design features have transformed into social...