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Departing Glances: A Sociotechnical Account of “Leaving” Grindr

June 20, 2012 | Jed Brubaker

On Grindr, a location-based social networking application aimed at gay men and their smartphones, the objective is to see and be seen. Within this context this study asks, “Why do users leave?” In contrast with…

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SOS: A Distributed Mobile Q and A System Based on Social Networks

Ze Li, Haiying Shen, Guoxin Liu, Jin Li

Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2012 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Computing Systems | June 2012

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In the Mood for Social Media

June 4, 2012

By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research When an oil spill happens, are we annoyed, angry, or furious? When the jobless rate drops, are we relieved, happy, or ecstatic? If these topics are being discussed on…

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SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation

Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan, Meredith Ringel Morris, Dan Liebling

Proc. ICWSM 2012 | June 2012

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“Narcotweets”: Social Media in Wartime

Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Emre Kiciman, danah boyd, Scott Counts

The 6th Intl. Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) | June 2012

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OMG, I have to Tweet that! A Study of Factors that Influence Tweet Rates

The 6th Intl. Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) | June 2012

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Focusing on Shared Experiences: Moving beyond the camera in video communication

Jed R. Brubaker, Gina Venolia, John Tang

Proc. DIS 2012 | June 2012

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Sexting, Consent and Young People’s Ethics: Beyond “Megan’s Story”

Kath Albury, Kate Crawford

Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies | June 2012, Vol 26(3): pp. 463-473

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Exploring the Complementary Roles of Social Networks and Search Engines

Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan

2012 Human-Computer Interaction Consortium Workshop (HCIC), Asilomar, CA | June 2012

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Not All Moods Are Created Equal! Exploring Human Emotional States In Social Media

Munmun De Choudhury, Scott Counts, Michael Gamon

June 2012

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