Social sciences - Microsoft Research

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Sociotechnical Systems

Sociotechnical Systems is a network of social science and humanistic researchers, part of the Microsoft Research labs in New England. Begun in 2009, the researchers who now lead the initiative are: Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie,…

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Scalable Influence Maximization for Prevalent Viral Marketing in Large-Scale Social Networks

Wei Chen, Chi Wang, Yajun Wang

Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’2010), Washington DC, U.S.A. | July 2010

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Mining Advisor-Advisee Relationships from Research Publication Networks

Chi Wang, Jiawei Han, Yuntao Jia, Jie Tang, Duo Zhang, Yintao Yu, Jingyi Guo

Proceeding of 2010 ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | July 2010

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Predicting the Importance of Newsfeed Posts and Social Network Friends

Tim Paek, Michael Gamon, Scott Counts, Max Chickering, Aman Dhesi

July 2010

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Buying In: On Adulthood and Home Ownership Ideologies

Kate Crawford

Published by Palgrave MacMillan | 2010

ISBN: 9.78023E+12

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FerroSynth: A Ferromagnetic Music Interface

Stuart Taylor, Jonathan Hook,

Proceeding of NIME 2010 | June 2010

Proceeding of NIME 2010

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Social Web-scale Provenance in the Cloud

Yogesh Simmhan

International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW) | June 2010

Publication

Noise, Now: Listening to Networks

Kate Crawford

Meanjin | June 2010, Vol 69(2): pp. 64-69

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Skill Matters: How Web Savvy and Other Factors Influence Online Behavior

May 26, 2010 | Eszter Hargittai

Much enthusiasm surrounds the potential of the Internet to improve people’s lives in numerous domains from health matters to education, from creative expression to financial independence, from political engagement to on-the-job performance. While it is…

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Chinese Youth and the Social Web: Identifying Patterns and Trends

Sam Jackson

MSR-TR-2010-60 | May 2010

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