Lurkers

Author : Andrea Tagarelli,Roberto Interdonato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030002299

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Mining Lurkers in Online Social Networks by Andrea Tagarelli,Roberto Interdonato Pdf

This SpringerBrief brings order to the wealth of research studies that contribute to shape our understanding of on-line social networks (OSNs) lurking phenomena. This brief also drives the development of computational approaches that can be effectively applied to answer questions related to lurking behaviors, as well as to the engagement of lurkers in OSNs. All large-scale online social networks (OSNs) are characterized by a participation inequality principle, i.e., the crowd of an OSN does not actively contribute, rather it takes on a silent role. Silent users are also referred to as lurkers, since they gain benefit from others' information without significantly giving back to the community. Nevertheless, lurkers acquire knowledge from the OSN, therefore a major goal is to encourage them to more actively participate. Lurking behavior analysis has been long studied in social science and human-computer interaction fields, but it has also matured over the last few years in social network analysis and mining. While the main target audience corresponds to computer, network, and web data scientists, this brief might also help increase the visibility of the topic by bridging different closely related research fields. Practitioners, researchers and students interested in social networks, web search, data mining, computational social science and human-computer interaction will also find this brief useful research material .

Author : Gremlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557057979

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Lurkers by Gremlin Pdf

Author : Sandi Tan
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641292566

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Lurkers by Sandi Tan Pdf

From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide, and they must fight to keep their home; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; a sardonic gay horror novelist finds that aging is more terrifying than any monster; and a white hippie mom and her adopted Vietnamese daughter realize that their anger binds them rather than pushes them apart. Lurkers is an homage to the rangy beauty of Los Angeles and the surprising power that we have to change the lives of those around us.

Author : Steve Niles
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1932382801

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The Lurkers by Steve Niles Pdf

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Author : Ina Wagner,Hilda Tellioglu,Ellen Balka,Carla Simone,Luigina Ciolfi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848828544

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ECSCW 2009: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 7-11 September 2009, Vienna, Austria by Ina Wagner,Hilda Tellioglu,Ellen Balka,Carla Simone,Luigina Ciolfi Pdf

This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW’09, the 11th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Each conference offers an occasion to critically review our research field, which has been multidisciplinary and committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological, from its beginning. These proceedings represent discussions and contributions to ongoing challenges. One challenge comes from emerging new technologies connected to ‘social computing’, gaming, as well as applications supporting citizen participation in their communities. As boundaries between home and work erode with the increased movement of work into home environments, and new applications further blur the once separate conceptions of work and leisure, our intellectual community faces challenges in the ways we think about and study work. Other challenges result from transformations of the world of work itself and the role of IT in these. They have been taken up in in-depth studies of design practice, software development, and manufacturing, as well as in the growing body of research on health care contexts and applications. Finally, there is the question of what is the European perspective in our community and whether it is worthwhile to anchor our research more firmly in such a perspective. Of high relevance to our field is the strong grounding of technology development in an understanding of human activity. The nineteen full papers, four short papers and one discussion paper selected for this conference deal with and reflect on some of these challenges, thus representing the lively debate currently ongoing in our field of research.

Author : J. Michael Straczynski,Matthew Sprange
Publisher : Mongoose Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781905471201

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Role Playing Game by J. Michael Straczynski,Matthew Sprange Pdf

Featuring the space station that changed the destiny of an entire galaxy, the Babylon 5 RPG from Mongoose Publishing allows players to take on the role of characters from the award-winning TV series. This all new edition revisits one of the most successful sci-fi roleplaying games of recent years, bringing the game to an all new group of fans! Existing fans will not be disappointed, the rules have been tweaked so that the game is even better than before, and most importantly, is a stand-alone rulebook in its own right with no requirement for the use of another rulebook!

Author : Julia Schwanholz,Todd Graham,Peter-Tobias Stoll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319617084

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Managing Democracy in the Digital Age by Julia Schwanholz,Todd Graham,Peter-Tobias Stoll Pdf

In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the ‘Internet of Things,’ this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political participation, political election campaigns and political regulation of the Internet. Within the context of Western democracies and China, the contributors analyze these challenges and opportunities from three perspectives: the regulatory state, the political use of social media, and through the lens of the public sphere. The first part of the book discusses key challenges for Internet regulation, such as data protection and censorship, while the second addresses the use of social media in political communication and political elections. In turn, the third and last part highlights various opportunities offered by digital media for online civic engagement and protest in the public sphere. Drawing on different academic fields, including political science, communication science, and journalism studies, the contributors raise a number of innovative research questions and provide fascinating theoretical and empirical insights into the topic of digital transformation.

Author : Giuseppe Riva,Brenda K. Wiederhold,Pietro Cipresso
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783110473780

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The Psychology of Social Networking Vol.1 by Giuseppe Riva,Brenda K. Wiederhold,Pietro Cipresso Pdf

Using a novel approach to consider the available literature and research, this book focuses on the psychology of social media based on the assumption that the experience of being in a social media has an impact on both our identity and social relationships. In order to ‘be online’, an individual has to create an online presence – they have to share information about themselves online. This online self is presented in different ways, with diverse goals and aims in order to engage in different social media activities and to achieve desired outcomes. Whilst this may not be a real physical presence, that physicality is becoming increasingly replicated through photos, video, and ever-evolving ways of defining and describing the self online. Moreover, individuals are using both PC-based and mobile-based social media as well as increasingly making use of photo and video editing tools to carefully craft and manipulate their online self. This book therefore explores current debates in Cyberpsychology, drawing on the most up-to-date theories and research to explore four main aspects of the social media experience (communication, identity, presence and relationships). In doing so, it considers the interplay of different areas of psychological research with current technological and security insight into how individuals create, manipulate and maintain their online identity and relationships. The social media are therefore at the core of every chapter, with the common thread throughout being the very unique approach to considering diverse and varied online behaviours that may not have been thus far considered from this perspective. It covers a broad range of both positive and negative behaviours that have now become integrated into the daily lives of many westernised country’s Internet users, giving it an appeal to both scholarly and industry readers alike.

Author : Andrés Garrido T.
Publisher : E-ditorial 531 S.A.S.
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Punk: The Future Never Comes by Andrés Garrido T. Pdf

The journalist and writer Andrés Garrido Torres was born in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2007, at the age of twenty-one, he traveled to London, where he stayed for a few years, having the opportunity to conduct some interviews for this book and attend various concerts such as The Sex Pistols in Brixton (2007) and Hammersmith (2008). Punk: The Future Never Comes, is a series of exclusive interviews with various artists from the UK punk movement. These artists of the punk revolution are the last link in the foundation of the legend of the artist misunderstood in their time, but admired by the following generations.

Author : Katerina Kabassi,Phivos Mylonas,Jaime Caro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031441462

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Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference (NiDS 2023) by Katerina Kabassi,Phivos Mylonas,Jaime Caro Pdf

This book summarizes the research findings presented at the 3rd International Conference on Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems (NiDS 2023). NiDS 2023 held in Athens, Greece, during September 28–29, 2023, under the auspices of the Institute of Intelligent Systems. The conference was implemented hybrid, allowing participants to attend it either online or onsite. NiDS 2023 places significant importance on the innovations within intelligent systems and the collaborative research that empowers and enriches artificial intelligence (AI) in software development. It encourages high-quality research, establishing a forum for investigating the obstacles and cutting-edge breakthroughs in AI. The conference is designed for experts, researchers, and scholars in artificial and computational intelligence, as well as computer science in general, offering them the opportunity to delve into relevant, interconnected, and mutually complementary fields. By facilitating the exchange of ideas, the conference strengthens and broadens the network of researchers, academics, and industry representatives.

Author : Kristopher Rufty
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 198189926X

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The Lurkers by Kristopher Rufty Pdf

They're waiting for you in the woods. They've lived in the woods and cornfields for as long as anyone can remember. Small, humanoid creatures with sharp teeth and grasping hands. The people in what's left of the small town Doverton live in fear. They've learned that if they let the creatures take what they want, they won't be attacked. An uneasy peace has reigned. But no more. The leader of the creatures has decided his kind will be dormant no longer. To survive, they must kill. They will satisfy their unholy hunger with their favorite prey-humans. But some humans-females-will be kept alive in captivity...to breed.

Author : Adam Wierzbicki,Ulrik Brandes,Frank Schweitzer,Dino Pedreschi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319283616

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Advances in Network Science by Adam Wierzbicki,Ulrik Brandes,Frank Schweitzer,Dino Pedreschi Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference and School of Network Science, NetSci-X 2016, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in January 2016. The 12 full and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers deal with the study of network models in domains ranging from biology and physics to computer science, from financial markets to cultural integration, and from social media to infectious diseases.

Author : Renee Barnes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319702353

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Uncovering Online Commenting Culture by Renee Barnes Pdf

In today’s digital world our social interactions often take place in the form of written comments. We chat, disagree, worship, vent, confess, and even attack in written form in public digital spaces. Drawing on scholarly literature from media and cultural studies, psychology and sociology, Uncovering Commenting Culture charts this commenting territory and outlines why we behave in these ways online. In this timely book, Renee Barnes provides a participatory model for understanding commenting culture that is based on the premise that our behaviours online–including those that cause us most the concern–are not so much an internet problem as a social problem. By looking at a wide variety of online commenting habitats, from the comment threads following news stories, through to specialist forums and social media platforms, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of online commenting in society and provides suggestions for how we might mitigate bad behaviours.

Author : Wendy W. Moe,David A. Schweidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107031203

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Social Media Intelligence by Wendy W. Moe,David A. Schweidel Pdf

As consumers, we turn to the public arena of social media to share our opinions and learn about the opinions of others. Fortune 500 companies, political campaigns, government agencies and many other organizations constantly monitor social media to gauge public opinion. This book explains how opinions are formed, what affects the opinions posted online and how organizations can use social media to inform their strategies.

Author : Marleen Huysman,Volker Wulf
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262083310

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Social Capital and Information Technology by Marleen Huysman,Volker Wulf Pdf

A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital--the value derived from social ties--and information technology. The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that researchers in information technology and knowledge management have begun to explore the idea of social capital in relation to their fields. This collection of thirteen essays by computer scientists, sociologists, communication specialists, economists, and others presents a multidisciplinary look at this particular intersection of information technology and social science and the need to adopt a sociotechnical perspective.For the most part the contributors take a positive view of the interplay of social capital, knowledge sharing, and community building. Some essays look at specific instances, including the on-line and face-to-face relationships of a community of athletes, the building of social capital among Iranian NGOs, and the Internet-based communities created by the open-source movement, while others discuss more general ideas of civic and personal communities. The last four essays examine computer applications that augment social capital, including topic- and member-centered communications spaces such as the Expert Finder and the Loops system and virtual repositories of knowledge such as the Answer Garden and Pearls of Wisdom.