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Social networks in the virtual science laboratory

Communications of the ACM, 2002
Communicating scientists' behavior, as well as their ideas, computer-supported cooperative work technology fosters virtual social networks of far-flung collaborators pursuing mutual interests and experiments.
George Chin, James Myers, David Hoyt
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Social Network Sites as Virtual Communities

2010
In 1993, Howard Rheingold brilliantly captured the zeitgeist of the emerging Internet with his book entitled Virtual Communities: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Although the image of online settings as communities can be traced to the Internet’s founding documents (e.g., Licklider & Taylor, 1968), Rheingold’s characterization captured the ...
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Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration

2012
Online communities are among the most obvious manifestations of social networks based on new media technology. Facilitating ad-hoc communication and leveraging collective intelligence by matching similar or related users have become important success factors in almost every successful business plan.
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Virtual Shadowing, Online Ethnographies and Social Networking Studies

2013
Drawing from the debate on the challenges that networked communication poses to social research, the chapter offers a critical analysis of literature on online ethnography, and it presents a methodological approach, that we can name ‘virtual shadowing’, we have applied to the study of social media use among Italian adolescents.
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Contextualizations in a Social Network. Context in Social networks and virtual communities

Revue d'intelligence artificielle, 2005
This paper proposes a context-based approach of social networks and virtual communities in the enterprise area. We point out that making context explicit it is possible to provide a global picture of the main aspects of social networks. A first result of this study is that the explicit consideration of contexts--especially shared contexts--could ...
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Implicit Virtual Communities in Social Networks

This chapter explores the topic of virtual community discovery in social networks. It starts with defining virtual communities. After that, the chapter goes over several network modelling strategies and community identification techniques. The significance of standardised datasets in evaluating algorithm performance is shown by a thorough analysis of ...
Shyam Sundar Meena, Vrinda Tokekar
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Virtual Social Networks: A New Dimension for Virtuality Research

2009
Virtuality has been undergoing rapid and fundamental changes. As technology changes, so too have its applications and our uses of and experiences with them have changed as well. The emergence of new technologies such as Web 2.0 technologies offers individuals opportunities for new ways of interacting, playing, working, and learning, and companies new ...
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Social determinants of health and US cancer screening interventions: A systematic review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Ariella R Korn
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On virtual social networks

Церковь, государство и общество: исторические, политико-правовые и идеологические аспекты взаимодействия. Материалы Международной научно-практической конференции, 2020
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Virtual Communication and Social Networks

2023
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