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Social networking

Nursing Management, 2009
Not to be outdone by the likes of broadcaster Stephen Fry and the prime minister's wife, Sarah Brown, the RCN has signed up to social networking website Twitter.
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Unsocial Networks - Restoring the Social in Social Networks

2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009
This paper discusses multiple meanings of the idea of “social networks.” It discusses how the most common view of social networks in Information Systems, as the result of the interaction of autonomous agents, could be tested. It then introduces research that falsifies that premise.
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Social networking, social network technologies, and the enterprise

Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, 2011
This research proposal sets out to investigate the organizational consequences of Corporate Social Networking Technologies (cSNT). Despite the rapid uptake of cSNT very little is known about the uses in and effects of SNT on enterprises. My main contention is that these technologies are embedded within a network of social ties.
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Evangelism in Social Networks

2016
We consider a population of interconnected individuals that, with respect to a piece information, at each time instant can be subdivided into three (time-dependent) categories: agnostic, influenced, and evangelists. A dynamical process of information diffusion evolves among the individuals of the population according to the following rules.
Cordasco, Gennaro, GARGANO, Luisa, RESCIGNO, Adele Anna, VACCARO, Ugo   +3 more
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Social Networks and Social Networking

IEEE Internet Computing, 2005
This issue's theme includes three articles on research activities that have drawn on ideas from social networking to drive innovative designs. The focus covers the design, development, and study of social technologies at the level of individuals, groups, and organizations. Although the tools described here are all intended for individuals, each article
Elizabeth F. Churchill, Christine A. Halverson   +1 more
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Social Stream, a social network framework

The First International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies, 2012
With the growing popularity of social network sites, it is appealing to develop social network frameworks (SNF) that alleviate the overhead associated with common social network features in social-enabled websites. This paper introduces Social Stream, a SNF. Social Stream has a modular architecture, mainly based in two supertypes.
Antonio Tapiador, Diego Carrera, Joaquín Salvachúa   +2 more
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Social networks: Human social networks

New Scientist, 2012
Social networks can dramatically affect our lives, influencing chances of becoming obese, giving up smoking, being happy or depressed, or getting ...
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Computer Networks As Social Networks

Science, 2001
Computer networks are inherently social networks, linking people, organizations, and knowledge. They are social institutions that should not be studied in isolation but as integrated into everyday lives. The proliferation of computer networks has facilitated a deemphasis on group solidarities at work and in the community and afforded a turn to ...
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The social meanings of social networks

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, 2013
In this talk, I examine the manifest, emic meanings of social networking in the context of social network analysis and it uses this to discuss how the confluence of social science and computational sociology can contribute to a richer understanding of how emerging social technologies shape and are shaped by people's everyday practices.
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An Improved Social Network Analysis Method for Social Networks

2013
Recently, Social Network Service (SNS) users are rapidly increasing, and Social Network Analysis (SNA) methods are used to analyze the structure of user relationship or messages in many fields. However, the SNA methods based on the shortest distance among nodes is time-consuming in measuring computation time.
Jongsoo Sohn, Daehyun Kang, Hansaem Park, Bok-Gyu Joo, In-Jeong Chung   +4 more
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