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Online and Social Media Data As an Imperfect Continuous Panel Survey

Fernando Diaz, Michael Gamon, Jake Hofman, Emre Kiciman, David Rothschild

PlosONE | January 2016, Vol 11

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Choice: the sciences of reason in the 21st century: a critical assessment

Richard Harper

Published by Polity Press | January 2016

ISBN: 9.78075E+12

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Reorienting categories as a members’ phenomena

Richard Fitzgerald, Sean Rintel

Discursive psychology: Classic and contemporary studies | Published by Routledge | 2016

ISBN: 978-0-415-72160-8

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Untangling research and practice: What Facebook’s “emotional contagion” study teaches us

danah boyd

Archives of Sexual Behavior | December 2015, Vol 45(5): pp. 1083-1099

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Accounting for Market Frictions and Power Asymmetries in Online Labor Markets

Sara C. Kingsley, Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri

Policy and Internet | December 2015, Vol 7: pp. 383-400

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Exploring Cognitive Benefits as an Alternative Motivation for Engaging Older Adults in Crowdwork

Meredith Ringel Morris, Robin N. Brewer, Anne Marie Piper

HCOMP 2015 Extended Abstracts | December 2015

ISBN: 978-1-57735-741-4

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Worker Dispatch

This research project investigates the design of an open source peer economy platform designed with and for service providers. This project is an early prototype of a worker dispatch system. This app was developed using…

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Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics, 1st Edition

Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd

Published by Policy Press | November 2015 | English, French edition

ISBN: 978-0745660714

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Voter Model on Signed Social Networks

Yanhua Li, Wei Chen, Yajun Wang, Zhi-Li Zhang

Internet Mathematics | November 2015, Vol 11(2): pp. 93-133

A preliminary version appears as "Influence diffusion dynamics and influence maximization in social networks with friend and foe relationships", WSDM'2013.

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From Competition to Complementarity: Comparative Influence Diffusion and Maximization

Wei Lu, Wei Chen, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan

Proceedings of the VLDB Sept., 2016 | November 2015