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Contextualizations in a Social Network. Context in Social networks and virtual communities
Revue d'intelligence artificielle, 2005This 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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Virtual Communities and Social Networking in Franchising
International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2018Franchising has been a popular approach to growing a business. Its popularity continues to increase, as we witness an emergence of a new business model Netchising or Online-to-Offline, combining the Internet for global demand-and-supply, virtual communities, and social networking processes and the international franchising arrangement for local ...
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Use and Participation in Virtual Social Networks
International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2010Managers are increasingly interested in the social web, as it provides numerous opportunities for strengthening and expanding relationships with customers, but the network processes that lead to these user-based assets are poorly understood. In this paper, the authors explore factors influencing use and participation in virtual social networks.
Pagani, Margherita, Hofacker, Charles F.
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Social Network Analysis of Virtual Worlds
2012As 3D environments become both more prevalent and more fragmented, studying how users are connected via their avatars and how they benefit from the virtual world community has become a significant area of research. An in depth analysis of the virtual world social networks is necessary to evaluate its worlds, to understand the impact of avatar social ...
Gregory Stafford +4 more
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Virtual caucasus on VK social networking site
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, 2016This paper provides mapping of ethnic themes and topics associated with the Caucasus on social networking site VKontakte popular in Eurasia. We collected data on virtual communities associated with major ethnic (Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani) and supra-ethnic ("Pan-Caucasian") groups. We combine network analysis (based on group co-membership) with
Daniel Alexandrov +2 more
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Privacy and Security for Virtual Communities and Social Networks
International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2009The importance of the virtual communities’ privacy and security problems comes into prominence by the rapid development of online social networks. This article presents the multiple threats currently plaguing the virtual world, Internet privacy risks, and recommendations and countermeasures to avoid such problems.
Georgios Michaelides, Gábor Hosszú
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An Empirical Study of Virtual Social Networks
International Journal of Social Media and Online Communities, 2021Virtual social network is a kind of social network established through indirect interactions between individuals, especially through online interactions. Virtual social network has significant implications on business operations, governing, scientific research, and social relations. This paper describes several virtual social networks and studies their
Liguo Yu, Yingmei Li
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Analysis of Cyber-bullying in a virtual social networking
2011 11th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), 2011This paper focuses on the social and cultural implications of cyber technologies. Identity, bullying and inappropriate use of communication are major issues that need to be addressed in relation to communication technologies for the security in the Web use.
Carlos Alberto Ochoa Ortíz Zezzatti +7 more
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Cross-Site Virtual Social Network Construction
2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW), 2015Given 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 0002 +3 more
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Social monitoring and social analysis in internet of things virtual networks
2015 18th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks, 2015The integration of social networking concepts into Internet of Things systems is a burgeoning topic of research that promises to support novel and more powerful applications. In this paper we present the social approach that the COSMOS project introduces in order to achieve enhanced services like discovery, recommendation and sharing between Things ...
Orfefs Voutyras +4 more
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