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Should social science be more solution-oriented?

Duncan Watts

Nature Human Behaviour | January 2017, pp. 15

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I may talk in English but gaali toh Hindi mein hi denge: A study of English-Hindi Code-Switching and Swearing Pattern on Social Networks

Jeenu Grover, Prabhat Agarwal, Ashish Sharma, Mayank Sikka, Koustav Rudra, Monojit Choudhury

January 2017

Proceedings of the Social Networking Workshop, COMSNETS 2017

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An Exploratory Study Toward the Preferred Conversational Style for Compatible Virtual Agents

Ameneh Shamekhi, Mary Czerwinski, Gloria Mark, Margeigh Novotny, Gregory Bennett

Intelligent Virtual Agents | January 2017

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Learn It, Buy It, Work It: Intensive Pregnancy on Instagram

Katrin Tiidenberg, Nancy Baym

Social Media + Society | January 2017

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The Impact of Aggregators on Internet News Consumption

Susan Athey, Markus Mobius, Jenő Pál

SSRN | January 2017

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-8

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Algorithmically Recognizable: Santorum’s Google problem, and Google’s Santorum problem

Tarleton Gillespie

Information, Communication and Society | January 2017, Vol 20(1): pp. 63-80

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Colla: a Digital Collaborator Seeker

Colla, abbreviation of “Collaboration Bot”, is a bot who can help people collaborate with their colleagues in a more convenient way. Colla could find the right person with a particular expertise and arrange online discussions…

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries

Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, Emre Kiciman

December 2016

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Effects of language experience, use, and cognitive functioning on bilingual word production and comprehension

Kaitlyn A. Litcofsky, Darren Tanner, Janet G. van Hell

International Journal of Bilingualism | December 2016, Vol 20(6): pp. 666-683

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Boosting Developer Productivity: How Personal Data Will Revolutionize Software Development

November 21, 2016 | Thomas Fritz

Software is eating the world.’ This statement by Marc Andreessen in a Wall Street Journal op-ed highlights the fact that software has become the backbone of countless major businesses, a trend that is expected to…

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