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On Twitter, people answer the question, "What are you doing right now?" in no more than 140 characters. We investigated the content of Twitter posts meeting search criteria relating to dental pain. A set of 1000 tweets was randomly selected from…
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This dissertation calls for expanding the scholarship on gender and the Internet to include weblogs and utilizes examples from women's weblogs from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan to understand the role the Internet plays in these women's…
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This paper describes a comprehensive study on social networks of weblogs integrated with analysis of users reading behavior. The analyzed data are obtained from a Japanese weblog hosting service, Doblog. Four kinds of social networks are generated…
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This paper is about the use of weblogs in research. We are both re- searchers of online games, texts and culture, and most of our material is Researching ICTs in Context gathered online. A lot of our research is done online. Unsurprisingly, we came…
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Globalization and the internet have created a space for news and political discourse that overrides geography and increases opportunities for non-mainstream, citizen-based news sources. Drawing a distinction between emerging citizen and professional…
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This article deals with the proliferation of Weblogs in the U.S. as of 2004. According to a blogging history on Yahoo!, some people consider Mosaic's 1993 What's New page to be the first blog. In 1997, the term Weblog was coined by Jorn Barger with…
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The blogosphere is a vast and dynamic complex network. Any examination of the structure of such a network is dependent on the selection of blogs sampled and the time frame of the sample. By comparing two large blog datasets, we demon- strate that…
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Networks have recently become fashionable in social analysis but most of the new network approaches have paid scant attention to the long history of reflections upon the potential of networks as an analytical device in the social
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Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together…
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Social media websites, such as YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Second Life are rapidly emerging as popular sources of health information especially for teens and young adults. Social media marketing carries the advantages of low cost, rapid…
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