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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life
History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
The Role of Social Capital in the Creation of Community Wireless Networks
Community wireless networks (CWNs) offer free or affordable Internet access for the purpose of improving the well-being of the community. Many questions have been raised about the...
Abdelnasser Abdelaal, Hesham H. Ali, Deepak Khazan...
WETICE
2006
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Co-Presence Communities: Using Pervasive Computing to Support Weak Social Networks
Although the strongest social relationships feature most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues that we share a ...
Jamie Lawrence, Terry R. Payne, David De Roure
IMC
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Understanding latent interactions in online social networks
Popular online social networks (OSNs) like Facebook and Twitter are changing the way users communicate and interact with the Internet. A deep understanding of user interactions in...
Jing Jiang, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Peng Huang,...
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Organizational acculturation and social networking
For large global enterprises, providing adequate resources for organizational acculturation, the process in which employees learn about an organization’s culture, remains a chal...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, David R. Millen, Darren Ge...