This paper presents ethnographic fieldwork on Friendster, an online dating site utilizing social networks to encourage friend-of-friend connections. I discuss how Friendster appli...
Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook thrive on energetic social interaction, but the factors that assure this are not well understood. There is a lack of theory th...
Catherine Dwyer, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, George Widme...
We have developed an agent-based simulation model based on a real case study in the Sekhukhune district of the Limpopo province in South Africa. The work reported here is part of ...
Auracle is a networked sound instrument controlled by the voice. Users jam together over the Internet using only a microphone. Throughout the development process, the authors expe...
Kristjan Varnik, Jason Freeman, Chandrasekhar Rama...
Social network games embedded within social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook facilitate play with “Friends” within the SNS. In this study, we look at different dimensions...
Donghee Yvette Wohn, Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Nicol...