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A Price Theory of Multi-Sided Platforms

American Economic Review | September 2010, Vol 100(4): pp. 1642-1672

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Computational Social Science in Medicine

August 23, 2010 | Abraham Flaxman

“Medicine is a social science”, this has been the mantra of public health since 1848. Today, medicine is a computational social science. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of the Global Burden of Disease…

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Why Social Computing Is So Hard: The Social-Technical Gap Between Technically Working and Socially Workable

August 10, 2010 | Mark Ackerman

Over the last 20 years, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has identified a base set of findings. These findings are taken almost as assumptions within the field. In summary, they argue that human activity is highly…

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Design’s processional character

Laurel Swan, Diana Tanase, Alex Taylor

DIS ’10: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems | August 2010

ISBN: 978-1-4503-0103-9

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Affiliation Networks: A Game-Theoretic Approach

Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes, Jian Ding, Brendan Lucier

MSR-TR-2010-110 | August 2010

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Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares?

danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai

First Monday | August 2010, Vol 15(8)

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Structural Predictors of Tie Formation in Twitter: Transitivity and Mutuality

Scott Golder, Sarita Yardi

Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing | August 2010

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Language Differences and Metadata Features on Twitter

Emre Kiciman

Web N-gram Workshop at SIGIR 2010 | July 2010

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I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience

Alice Marwick, danah boyd

New Media and Society | July 2010, Vol 13(1): pp. 114-133

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Social Media Collective

The mission of the SMC is first and foremost to bring critical and analytical lenses to contemporary sociotechnical systems, particularly around media, expertise, labor, and publics. We aim to contribute to the academic fields concerned with…