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Understanding jugaad: ICTD and the tensions of appropriation, innovation and utility

Nimmi Rangaswamy, Melissa Densmore

Proceedings of ICTD 2013, the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Cape Town, South Africa | December 2013

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Computational social science and social computing

Winter Mason, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach

Mach Learn | November 2013, Vol 95: pp. 257-260

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The First-Order Approach to Merger Analysis

Sonia Jaffe, E. Glen Weyl

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | November 2013

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Nature of Information, People, and Relationships in Digital Social Networks

Rakesh Agrawal

MSR-TR-2013-115 | November 2013

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The use of Melodic Scales in Bollywood Music: An Empirical Study

Hindi film music, which is commonly referred to as Bollywood music, is one of the most popular forms of music in the world today. One of the reasons for its popularity has been the willingness…

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Facebook in the university workplace

Aurora Francois, Aparna Hebbani, Sean Rintel

Media International Australia | November 2013

Francois, A., Hebbani, A. & Rintel, S. (2013). Facebook in the university workplace. Media International Australia, 149, 15-27.

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Estimating the Relative Utility of Networks for Predicting User Activities

Nina Mishra, Daniel M. Romero, Panayiotis Tsaparas

CIKM | October 2013

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“The Rosie Project” (a novel)

October 21, 2013 | Graeme Simsion

MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the…

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Connected and Concerned: Variation in Parents’ Online Safety Concerns

danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai

Policy & Internet | October 2013

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Information and Influence Propagation in Social Networks

Wei Chen, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Carlos Castillo

Published by Morgan & Claypool | October 2013 | Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Oct. 2013 edition

Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Oct. 2013