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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"social web"”.
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Predicting Community Preference of Comments on the Social Web
Large-scale socially-generated metadata is one of the key features driving the growth and success of the emerging Social Web. Recently there have been many research efforts to study the quality of this metadata - like user-contributed tags, comments, and ratings - and its potential impact on new …
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Through the Social Web: Citizen-led Participation in Ontario Policy-making
… of consultation technologies. More recently, the social characteristics of the web have emerged as offering an alternative means for citizen participation, promising more openness and inclusion. In this dissertation I draw upon studies of the policy-making process and media design, to examine the …
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Politischer Radikalismus innerhalb des Social Web. Eine Analyse gängiger Narrative und diskursiver Strategien rechter Akteure
… wird hierbei auf Kommunikation innerhalb des Social Web gelegt. Zur Bewältigung des Forschungsvorhabens wird als Methode eine Diskursanalyse angewendet. Die Analyse kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass sowohl die erzeugten Narrative als auch die verwendeten diskursiven Strategien in allen untersuchten …
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Seamless interoperability and data portability in the social web for facilitating an open and heterogeneous online social network federation
Online Social Networks (OSN) have become an integral part of our everyday lives. We express ourselves, create and collect content such as images or videos, share content and information with our friends and colleagues, exchange messages, or keep track of what's happening in the world. Yet, despite …
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Managing Ubiquitous Scientific Knowledge Objects
… reusability in response to the advancement of web technologies. A highly semantic enriched publication always makes its information and data much easier to search, navigate, disseminate and reuse, whereas most online articles today are still electronic facsimiles of linear structured papers, …
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Caesar : a social code review tool for programming education
Caesar is a distributed, social code review tool designed for the specific constraints and goals of a programming course. Caesar is capable of scaling to a large and diverse reviewer population, provides automated tools for increasing reviewer efficiency, and implements a social web interface for …
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Social media analytics in business intelligence applications
Social media is becoming increasingly important in society and culture, empowering consumers to group together on common interests and share opinions through the Internet. The social web shifts the originators of content from companies to users. Differences caused by this dynamic result in existing …
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An Investigation of Digital Reference Interviews: A Dialogue Act Approach
… Yahoo! Answers) characterizes a recent trend in web technologies, often referred to as the social web. This trend highlights the importance of supporting linguistic interactions in people's online information-seeking activities in daily life - something that the web search engines still lack …
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Transforming user data into user value by novel mining techniques for extraction of web content, structure and usage patterns. The Development and Evaluation of New Web Mining Methods that enhance Information Retrieval and improve the Understanding of User¿s Web Behavior in Websites and Social Blogs.
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web in the last decade makes it the largest publicly accessible data source in the world, which has become one of the most significant and influential information revolution of modern times. The influence of the Web has impacted almost every aspect of humans' …
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Study of big data analytics landscape : considerations for market entry of an E-commerce analytics vendor
… a remarkable growth in the types of user data: social, web and more recently mobile. As newer sources of data emerge, our ability to separate an individual from a segment improves. The data being analyzed is not just structured in nature. Several processing technologies are analyzing …
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Evaluation and Improvement of Semantically-Enhanced Tagging System
The Social Web or ‘Web 2.0’ is focused on the interaction and collaboration between web sites users. It is credited for the existence of tagging systems, amongst other things such as blogs and Wikis. Tagging systems like YouTube and Flickr offer their users the simplicity and freedom in creating …
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Domesticating the citizen : household authority, the merchant class family and the early modern stage
… interactions within the home. This complex web of relationships is merely one small part of a much larger social web in the vast city. The treatment of the family as society in small, however, allows for a modern interpretation of the city, or at least a vital part of the city for many of …
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Distributed query execution on a replicated and partitioned database
Web application developers partition and replicate their data amongst a set of SQL databases to achieve higher throughput. Given multiple copies of tables partioned different ways, developers must manually select different replicas in their application code. This work presents Dixie, a query …
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The Art of Perl: How a Scripting Language (inter)Activated the World Wide Web
… and the advent of Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web (Web), in the 1990s, Perl soon became the glue-language for the Internet, due in large part to its relationship to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). Perl was the go-to language for on the fly program …
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Consumption of Content on the Web: An Ecologically Inspired Perspective
… for and organize informational resources on the web? This dissertation explores this question in the context of music tagging and listening, incorporating web data mining and machine learning methods with theory from cognitive science. In particular, I draw inspiration from information foraging …
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From user behaviours to collective semantics
The World Wide Web has developed into an important platform for social interactions with the rise of social networking applications of different kinds. Collaborative tagging systems, as prominent examples of these applications, allow users to share their resources and to interact with each other. …
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Blogging the hyperlocal : the disruption and renegotiation of hegemony in Malta
… and media institutions, advanced take-up of social technologies and a popular culture adjusting to the promise of modernity represented by EU membership. Popular discourse is dominated by political partisanship and advocacy journalism, with Malta being the only European country that permits …
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Intelligent Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities
… are currently one of the fastest growing web environments. A common misconception is to believe that a virtual community will be effective when people and technology are present. Appropriate support for the effective functioning of online communities is paramount. In this line, …
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Dialoge in Online-Leserforen – Struktur und Gegenstand : Untersuchungen zur Markenidentifikation am Beispiel der „Locationgate“-Affäre
Mit der Entwicklung des Social Web, also einem Internet, in dem sich immer mehr Nutzer untereinander auf Kommunikationsplattformen wie Facebook, in Foren und Bewertungsplattformen und auf Microblogging-Diensten wie Twitter austauschen, überschlagen sich Kommunikationsspezialisten mit Ratschlägen …
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A supervisão de um curso de formação em eLearning em contexto empresarial
… por uma nova geração de tecnologia informática social - Web 2.0. Estas mudanças permitem que as pessoas partilhem informação, colaborem em projetos e construam comunidades virtuais sem que, para tal, encontrem qualquer tipo de limite, seja temporal ou espacial. O contexto empresarial não está …
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