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WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Learning to recognize reliable users and content in social media with coupled mutual reinforcement
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Ding Zhou, Eugene Agichte...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 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
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Connecting with kids: so what's new?
From pre-schools to high schools, at home and in museums, the educational community has embraced the use of computers as a teaching tool. Yet many institutions will simply install...
Lori L. Scarlatos, Amy Bruckman, Allison Druin, Mi...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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16 years 8 days ago
Taking Topic Detection From Evaluation to Practice
Abstract— The Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) research community investigates information retrieval methods for organizing a constantly arriving stream of news articles by the...
James Allan, Stephen M. Harding, David Fisher, Alv...
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DIGITALCITIES
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism
Much thinking about digital cities is in terms of community groups. Yet, the world is composed of social networks and not of groups. This paper traces how communities have changed ...
Barry Wellman