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Social Media as Social Transition Machinery: Separating Identities and Networks During Gender Transition on Tumblr and Facebook
(ACM, 2018-11)
Social media, and people's online self-presentations and social networks, add complexity to people's experiences managing changing identities during life transitions. I use gender transition as a case study to understand ...
The Social Media and Civic Engagement Matrix
(iConference, 2019-04-02)
This poster presents a framework for classifying online civic behaviors expressed in social media. We draw attention to how engaged communities report high qualities of life, and then we argue prior research typically ...
A Market-Based Approach to Optimal Resource Allocation in Integrated-Services connection-Oriented Networks
(2002-07)
We present an approach to the admission control and resource allocation problem in connection-oriented networks that offer multiple services to users. Users' preferences are summarized by means of their utility functions, ...
Answers from the crowd: How credible are strangers in social Q&A?
(2014-03)
Individuals may encounter distinct kinds of challenges in assessing credibility in a social Q&A setting where they interact with strangers. It is necessary to better understand how people make credibility judgments when ...
Biased Replacement Policies for Web Caches: Differential Quality-of-Service and Aggregate User Value
(1999)
Disk space in shared Web caches can be diverted to serve some system users at the expense of others. Cache hits reduce server loads, and if servers desire load reduction to different degrees, a replacement policy which ...
Perceptions and experiences of staff in the planning and implementing of institutional repositories.
(2008)
The MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories a Collaborative
Learning Environment) Project team investigated issues and trends
related to institutional repository planning and implementation,
such as the purposes and ...
Introduction to reference work in the digital age
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-09)
No abstract.
Video Documentation of MiFresh (UrbanResource) Final Presentation
(2008-12-15)
This video documents the final presentation of MiFresh (UrbanResource) (group members Maureen Hanratty, Jiang Yang, Xiao Wei, and Geoffrey Ho) in SI 682, Interface and Interaction Design.
Pricing the Internet
(MIT Press, 1995)
We describe the technology and costs of the Internet, then discuss how to design efficient pricing in order to allocate scarce Internet resources. We offer a "smart market" as a device to efficiently price congestion.