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Virtual Social Networks

International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2009
Multi-user virtual communities have become an accepted fundamental component of communication whereby community members share information and knowledge for mutual learning or problem solving.Virtual communities in a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) have evolved into active social networks, formulating an alternative social existence and this ...
Sunanda Sangwan   +2 more
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Virtual private social networks

Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy, 2011
Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are having a significant impact on the social life of many people - even beyond the millions of people that use them directly. These websites usually allow users to present a profile of themselves through a long list of very detailed information. However, even when such SNSs have advanced privacy policies, users are often
CONTI, MAURO, Hasani A, Crispo B.
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Virtual Social Network Communities

CALICO Journal, 2012
Although often neglected in language textbooks and classrooms, sociopragmatic and multiliteracy skills are crucial elements in language learning that language educators should not disregard. This article investigates whether a social networking community (SNC) website such as Facebook can be exploited in the context of an intermediate foreign language
Geraldine Blattner, Melissa Fiori
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SOCIAL MOVEMENT NETWORKS VIRTUAL AND REAL

Information, Communication & Society, 2000
This paper discusses the impact of 'computer mediated communication' (or CMC) on political activism and social movements. CMC may be expected to affect collective action by improving the effectiveness of communication and facilitating collective identity and solidarity.
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Social network analysis in virtual environments

Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 2009
Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) allow users to navigate and explore the environment as well as interact with other users. The interaction within these environments is often text-based using Internet relay chat (IRC) and related systems. IRC poses a difficulty for researchers looking to analyze and interpret the communicative interaction since ...
Devan Rosen, Margaret Corbit
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Social Networking Tools in Virtual Reference

International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2015
The rapid advancements in web and availability of growing number of free social networking tools have greatly influenced the present day communication mechanisms. These tools have provided cheaper, instant and faster methods of communicating information irrespective of geographical and time barriers.
Nadim Akhtar Khan   +3 more
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Cross-Site Virtual Social Network Construction

2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW), 2015
Given the plethora of social networking sites, it can be difficult for users to browse too many sites and discover social friends. For example, for a new diabetes patient, how can s/he find the users with similar symptoms on different dedicated sites and form supporting groups with them?
Chenhao Xie   +3 more
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