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The Days of Anna Madrigal – Co-sponsored by GLEAM and MSPAC

January 28, 2014 | Armistead Maupin

The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin’s bestselling “Tales of the City” series, follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender…

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The Readability of Tweets and their Geographic Correlation with Education

James R. A. Davenport, Robert DeLIne

January 2014

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WeDo: End-To-End Computer Supported Collective Action

Haoqi Zhang, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Aaron Shaw, Sean A. Munson, Elizabeth Gerber, Benjamin Mako Hill, Peter Kinnaird, Shelly D. Farnham, Patrick Minder, Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D.

ICWSM | January 2014

ICWSM

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InterPoll: Crowd-Sourced Internet Polls (Done Right)

Ben Livshits, Todd Mytkowicz

MSR-TR-2014-3 | January 2014

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Craving, creating, and constructing comfort: insights and opportunities for technology in hospice

Michael Massimi

Proc. CSCW 2014 | January 2014

Proc. CSCW 2014

Winner of Best Paper Award at CSCW 2014

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The Relevance of Algorithms

Tarleton Gillespie

Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society | Published by MIT Press | 2014

(Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski, and Kirsten Foot, eds.)

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Predicting Individual Behavior with Social Networks

Sharad Goel, Daniel G. Goldstein

January 2014

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“Real, but Glossy” – Technology and the Pursuit of Magic in Modern Weddings

Michael Massimi, Richard Harper, Abigail Sellen

Proc. CSCW 2014 | January 2014

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Circuits of Labour: A Labour Theory of the iPhone Era

Jack Qui, Melissa Gregg, Kate Crawford

Triple C Journal | January 2014, pp. 564-581

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“Narco” Emotions: Affect and Desensitization in Social Media during the Mexican Drug War

Munmun De Choudhury, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Gloria Mark

Proceedings of CHI 2014 | January 2014

Proceedings of CHI 2014

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