Browsing by Author "Gruzd, Anatoliy"
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The Analysis of Online Communities using Interactive Content-based Social Networks
Gruzd, Anatoliy; Haythornthwaite, Caroline (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 ... -
Analyzing Networked Learning Texts
Haythornthwaite, Caroline; Gruzd, Anatoliy (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 ... -
Automated Discovery and Analysis of Social Networks from Threaded Discussions
Gruzd, Anatoliy; Haythornthwaite, Caroline (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 ... -
Automated Discovery of Emerging Online Communities Among Blog Readers: A Case Study of a Canadian Real Estate Blog
Gruzd, Anatoliy (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 ... -
Blogging with CONTEXT: A context-aware information retrieval system for bloggers
Gruzd, Anatoliy; Wong, J. (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 ... -
Investigating biomedical research literature in the blogosphere: a case study of diabetes and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c)
Gruzd, Anatoliy; Black, Fiona A.; Le, Thi Ngoc Yen; Amos, Kathleen (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 ... -
Investigating biomedical research literature in the blogosphere: a case study of diabetes and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c)
Gruzd, Anatoliy; Black, Fiona A.; Le, Thi Ngoc Yen; Amos, Kathleen (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 ... -
N is for Network: New Tools for Mapping Organizational Change
Steffen-Fluhr, N.; Gruzd, Anatoliy; Collins, R.; Osatuyi, B. (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 ... -
Name Networks: A Content-Based Method for Automated Discovery of Social Networks to Study Collaborative Learning
Gruzd, Anatoliy (2009)As a way to gain greater insight into the operation of Library and Information Science (LIS) e-learning communities, the presented work applies automated text mining techniques to text- based communication to identify, ... -
Trends in Scholarly Use of Online Social Media
Gruzd, Anatoliy; Staves, Kathleen (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
Gruzd, Anatoliy (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 ... -
Write While You Search: Ambient Searching of a Digital Library in the Context of Writing
Gruzd, Anatoliy; Twidale, Michael (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 ...