Social sciences - Microsoft Research

Publication

Accounting for Market Frictions and Power Asymmetries in Online Labor Markets

Sara C. Kingsley, Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri

Policy and Internet | December 2015, Vol 7: pp. 383-400

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Exploring Cognitive Benefits as an Alternative Motivation for Engaging Older Adults in Crowdwork

Meredith Ringel Morris, Robin N. Brewer, Anne Marie Piper

HCOMP 2015 Extended Abstracts | December 2015

ISBN: 978-1-57735-741-4

Project

Worker Dispatch

This research project investigates the design of an open source peer economy platform designed with and for service providers. This project is an early prototype of a worker dispatch system. This app was developed using…

Publication

Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics, 1st Edition

Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd

Published by Policy Press | November 2015 | English, French edition

ISBN: 978-0745660714

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Voter Model on Signed Social Networks

Yanhua Li, Wei Chen, Yajun Wang, Zhi-Li Zhang

Internet Mathematics | November 2015, Vol 11(2): pp. 93-133

A preliminary version appears as "Influence diffusion dynamics and influence maximization in social networks with friend and foe relationships", WSDM'2013.

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From Competition to Complementarity: Comparative Influence Diffusion and Maximization

Wei Lu, Wei Chen, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan

Proceedings of the VLDB Sept., 2016 | November 2015

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Ad hoc adaptability in video-calling

Sean Rintel, Kenton O'Hara, Behnaz Rostami Yehaneh

November 2015

ITS'2015 – Workshop on Interacting with Multi-Device Ecologies in the Wild

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Microsoft Research Blog

Swimming in a deluge of user generated content

October 26, 2015

The Internet is awash in user generated content (UGC)—from blogs, reviews, and Q&As, to wikis, tweets, and Facebook posts. And let’s not forget photo- and video-sharing sites: every second, one hour of video is uploaded…

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Effects of Grammaticality and Morphological Complexity on the P600 Event-Related Potential Component

Alison S. Mehravari, Darren Tanner, Emma K. Wampler, Geoffrey D. Valentine, Lee Osterhout

PLoS ONE | October 2015

Publication

Building Effective Query Classifiers: A Case Study in Self-harm Intent Detection

Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White

Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Melbourne, Australia | October 2015