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How Women Help Influence Technology

July 12, 2012

Lucy Sanders, CEO of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, briefly explains how Microsoft Research incorporates a key component that helps drive technological design and innovation.

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Anthropology, development and ICTs: Slums, youth and the mobile internet in urban India

Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell

Proceedings of ICTD 2012, the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development | July 2012

Proceedings of ICTD 2012, the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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Defining and Measuring Cyberbullying Within the Larger Context of Bullying Victimization

Michele L. Ybarra, danah boyd, Josephine D. Korchmaros, Jay (Koby) Oppenheim

Journal of Adolescent Health | July 2012, Vol 51(1): pp. 53-58

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Supporting Distributed Feed-Following Apps over Edge Devices

Badrish Chandramouli, Suman Nath, Wenchao Zhou

MSR-TR-2012-73 | July 2012

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An analysis of screen reader use in India

Ted McCarthy, Joyojeet Pal, Ed Cutrell, Tanvi Marballi

Proceedings of ICTD 2012, the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development | July 2012

Proceedings of ICTD 2012, the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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Departing Glances: A Sociotechnical Account of “Leaving” Grindr

June 20, 2012 | Jed Brubaker

On Grindr, a location-based social networking application aimed at gay men and their smartphones, the objective is to see and be seen. Within this context this study asks, “Why do users leave?” In contrast with…

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SOS: A Distributed Mobile Q and A System Based on Social Networks

Ze Li, Haiying Shen, Guoxin Liu, Jin Li

Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2012 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Computing Systems | June 2012

Microsoft Research Blog

In the Mood for Social Media

June 4, 2012

By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research When an oil spill happens, are we annoyed, angry, or furious? When the jobless rate drops, are we relieved, happy, or ecstatic? If these topics are being discussed on…

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SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation

Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan, Meredith Ringel Morris, Dan Liebling

Proc. ICWSM 2012 | June 2012

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“Narcotweets”: Social Media in Wartime

Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Emre Kiciman, danah boyd, Scott Counts

The 6th Intl. Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) | June 2012