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DIOSI: Dynamics of intimacy from online social interactions

Friendships are dynamic. In this project, we uncover the dynamics of tie strength and online social interactions in terms of various aspects, such as reciprocity, temporality, and contextually. Based upon these dynamics, we build a…

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Computer Supported Collective Action

Aaron Shaw, Haoqi Zhang, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Sean Munson, Benjamin Mako Hill, Elizabeth Gerber, Peter Kinnaird, Patrick Minder

interactions | March 2014

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Forming Beneficial Teams of Students in Massive Online Classes

Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evimaria Terzi

ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S) | March 2014

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A Cloud-Based Knowledge Discovery System for Monitoring Fine-Grained Air Quality

Yu Zheng, Xuxu Chen, Qiwei Jin, Yubiao Chen, Xiangyun Qu, Xin Liu, Eric Chang, Wei-Ying Ma, Yong Rui, Weiwei Sun

MSR-TR-2014-40 | March 2014

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Microsoft Research Blog

Chatting with the Author of ‘It’s Complicated’

February 25, 2014

On Feb. 25, Yale University Press released the highly anticipated new book by danah boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, titled It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. As one of…

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It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

danah boyd

Published by Yale University Press | February 2014

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‘It’s just drama’: teen perspectives on conflict and aggression in a networked era

Alice Marwick, danah boyd

Journal of Youth Studies | February 2014

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Assessing non-detrimental trade for a CITES Appendix II-listed plant species: the status of wild and cultivated Galanthus woronowii in Georgia

Noel McGough, David Kikodze, Richard Wilford, Lucy Garrett, Grigol Deisadze, Natalie Jaworska, Matthew Smith

Oryx, The International Journal of Conservation | February 2014

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Computational Social Science: CSCW in the Social Media Era

Scott Counts, Munmun De Choudhury, Jana Diesner, Eric Gilbert, Marta C. Gonzalez, Brian Keegan, Mor Naaman, Hanna Wallach

CSCW Companion ’14 Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing | February 2014

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Voting Squared: Quadratic Voting in Democratic Politics

Eric A. Posner, E. Glen Weyl

Vanderbilt Law Review | February 2014, Vol 68(2)