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Automated Discovery of Emerging Online Communities Among Blog Readers: A Case Study of a Canadian Real Estate Blog
(2009)
More than 184 million people worldwide have started a web blog, that collectively attracted at least 346 million blog readers. Due to their popularities, web blogs have been the focus of many recent Internet studies. Aside ...
Trends in Scholarly Use of Online Social Media
(Position paper presented at the Workshop on Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaboration, the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, 2011, Kauai, HI, USA., 2011-01-04)
Web APIs: A Step towards Greater Mobility of User-Created Data across Social Networking Websites and Their Implications for Research in Information Behavior
(2007)
As Internet users are joining more online communities
such as Facebook and MySpace, they are also becoming
more prolific content creators. But unfortunately, the task
of managing and exchanging content between their ...
Investigating biomedical research literature in the blogosphere: a case study of diabetes and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c)
(2012-01)
Objective: The research investigated the relationship between biomedical literature and blogosphere discussions about diabetes in order to explore the role of Web 2.0 technologies in disseminating health information. Are ...
Analyzing Networked Learning Texts
(2008)
Social interactions are essential in understanding the collaborative processes in networked learning
environments. Although individuals may learn by retrieving information from online archives,
dictionaries and ...
Write While You Search: Ambient Searching of a Digital Library in the Context of Writing
(2006)
We consider ideas for a tighter integration of searching a digital
library while writing a paper. A prototype system based on web
services is described which allows us to explore the design space
of ambient search tools ...
Blogging with CONTEXT: A context-aware information retrieval system for bloggers
(ACM, 2010)
The poster describes the development process and evaluation of a context-aware information retrieval system for blog authors, called CONTEXT. As a blogger writes a post, the system automatically retrieves and displays links ...
Automated Discovery and Analysis of Social Networks from Threaded Discussions
(2008)
To gain greater insight into the operation of online social networks, we applied Natural Language
Processing (NLP) techniques to text-based communication to identify and describe underlying social
structures in online ...
N is for Network: New Tools for Mapping Organizational Change
(2010)
Understanding network dynamics is important for underrepresented minorities and women in
technological organizations, who can easily spend their entire careers on the periphery, far away from
the flow of information ...
The Analysis of Online Communities using Interactive Content-based Social Networks
(2008)
Today the Internet has become a convenient and ubiquitous platform for anyone with access to publish their thoughts and ideas, express their opinions, argue with their peers on various issues and, most importantly, organize ...