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Publication

Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1: Four Challenges from the Field

Cathy Marshall

DLib Magazine | March 2008, Vol 14(4)

Part 1 of a two-part article

Project

BLEWS – What The Blogosphere Tells You About News

While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader without information about which stories figure prominently in political discourse. BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize…

Publication

Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits and Effects on Memory for Online Profiles

Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts

January 2008

Publication

Personalized Awareness and Safety with Mobile Phones as Sources and Sinks

Anna Yu, Athanasios Bamis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Thiago Teixeira, Andreas Savvides

UrbanSense Workshop (held in conjuction with ACM Sensys) | January 2008

UrbanSense Workshop (held in conjuction with ACM Sensys)

Publication

Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes

, Scott Counts

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) | January 2008

Publication

Handsome Devils: Mobile imaginings of Youth Culture

Kate Crawford, Gerard Goggin

Global Media Journal – Australian Edition | January 2008, Vol 2(1)

Publication

“Express Yourself” and “Stay Together”: The Middle-Class Indian Family

Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy

Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, 24 | Published by MIT Press | 2008 | Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies edition

Publication

Welfare, Agency and ‘ICT for Development’

Aishwarya Ratan

Proc. of ICTD 2007 | December 2007

Video

Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture

October 17, 2007 | Tarleton Gillespie

While the public and the media have been distracted by the story of Napster, warnings about the evils of “piracy” and lawsuits by the recording and film industries, the enforcement of copyright law in the…

Tarleton Gillespie looking at the camera

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Publication

VideoPlay: Playful and Social Editing of Video using Tangible Objects and Multi-touch Interaction

Stuart Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Kursat Ozenc, Richard Harper

IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP ’07) | October 2007

IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '07)