Social Computing and Computer-supported Cooperative Work

The Benefits of Facebook ‘‘Friends:’’ Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites presented by Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield and Cliff Lampe conducts one of the first studies on Facebook users, and their offline to online relationship. The paper was presented back in 2007, almost 10 years ago. The difference between…

This paper studied the relationship between Facebook and three types of social capital. Social capital is the nuances and interactions between individuals in a society of any size. It also most commonly refers to the benefits and reciprocity that is associated with a social network. Weak ties, or bridging social capital is loosely connected with…

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between Facebook and the formation & maintenance of social capital. The authors describe social capital as “the sum of the resources, actual or virtual, that accrue to an individual or a group by virtue of possessing a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of…

First, I’d like to draw our attention to the adorable pre-Facebook networking site Netville: ‘‘Netville’’ residents with broadband Internet connections and access to a local online community discussion board were more likely to be involved with their neighbors than were their non-wired peers: They recognized three times as many and talked to twice as many….

Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield, Cliff Lampe, The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 12, Issue 4, 1 July 2007, Pages 1143–1168 The authors present a comprehensive review of the concept of social capital and its creation and maintenance via Facebook. They…

Ellison, Nicole B., Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe. “The benefits of Facebook “friends:” Social capital and college students’ use of online social network sites.” Journal of computer-mediated communication 12.4 (2007): 1143-1168. Summary: This paper provides both a comprehensive literature review on social network sites and social capital then conducts a study on the bridging, bonding,…

Reflection: GroupLens The paper discusses “GroupLens” as “An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of Netnew”. As I read this articile I began thinking of all the popular recommendation apps that are out there today such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon,Youtube,  etc and realized how they all have the same key fundamental principles:             Openness: There are…

[P]eople who agreed in the past are likely to agree again So simple, and yet this heuristic is the bedrock of every modern recommendation algorithm.  This is “Because you watched X” on Netflix and “Others who viewed Y also viewed” on Amazon, and the basic idea behind our Facebook feeds.  Behold: collaborative filtering. Before, there…

Resnick, Paul, et al. “GroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews.” Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. ACM, 1994. This seems like a very underrated/underdog work at the intersection of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. Published in 1994, I wonder what the authors of this paper thought would be…

The paper “GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of Netnews” was presented by Paul Resnick, Neophytos Iacovou , Mitesh Suchak, Peter Bergstrom, John Riedl. Reflection: The paper presents the idea of GroupLens, Which at first glance reminded me of current “netnews” Reddit. We are currently working on Reddit data for our project, so the…