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ViralVCD: tracing information-diffusion paths with low cost media in developing communities

Nithya Sambasivan, Edward Cutrell, Kentaro Toyama, Ed Cutrell

CHI ’10: Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems | January 2010

ISBN: 978-1-60558-929-9

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Light bodies: exploring interactions with responsive lights

Susanne Seitinger, Daniel M. Taub, Alex Taylor

TEI ’10: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction | January 2010

ISBN: 978-1-60558-841-4

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Social Networking Research Area

We conduct research in the area of algorithms, systems, and services where user behaviour is a key factor – this includes algorithmic aspects, design of systems and services, and understanding of user behaviour. Our research…

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Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media

danah boyd

MSR-TR-2009-168 | November 2009

Citation: boyd, danah. 2009. "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media." Web2.0 Expo. New York, NY: November 17.

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The Isolation Game: A Game of Distances

Yingchao Zhao, Wei Chen, Shang-Hua Teng

Theoretical Computer Science | November 2009, Vol 410(47-49): pp. 4905-4919

An extended abstract appears in Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation ( ISAAC'2008), Gold Coast, Australia, Dec. 2008

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Implications of User Choice: The Cultural Logic of “MySpace or Facebook?”

danah boyd

MSR-TR-2009-151 | November 2009

Interactions Magazine

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Friends, Foes, and Fringe: Norms and Structure in Political Discussion Networks

John Kelly, Danyel Fisher, Marc Smith

Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice | Published by Universities Press | 2009 | Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice edition

The book is availale at http://odbook.stanford.edu/

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