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Virtual Social Networks [PDF]

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, Chong Guan, Judy A. Siguaw   +2 more
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SOCIAL MOVEMENT NETWORKS VIRTUAL AND REAL

Information, Communication and 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.
Mario Diani
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Virtual private social networks and a facebook implementation

ACM Transactions on the Web, 2013
The popularity of Social Networking Sites (SNS) is growing rapidly, with the largest sites serving hundreds of millions of users and their private information. The privacy settings of these SNSs do not allow the user to avoid sharing some information (e.g., name and profile picture) with all the other users.
Bruno Crispo, Mauro Conti
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Virtual private social networks [PDF]

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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Drivers of interdependence and network convergence in social networks in virtual communities

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2015
This study examined drivers of interdependence and network convergence in social networks in virtual communities.This study used weak/strong tie theory for developing hypotheses.Needs for affiliation, altruism, and social intelligence are related to interdependence and network convergence.Some of the interactions are related to interdependence and ...
Ching-I Teng
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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 Jr., James D. Myers, David Hoyt   +2 more
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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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