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A Computational Approach to Media Bias

February 16, 2012 | Souneil Park

In this talk, we introduce our research on a major problem of journalism, i.e., the media bias problem. Bias of the news media is an inherent flaw of the news production process, spanning news gathering,…

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Social Search Social Builds Bridges

February 14, 2012

By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Two conferences, same region, consecutive weeks—sounds like a perfect opportunity for a social. That’s certainly what sprang to mind for Meredith Ringel Morris, researcher in the Natural Interaction Research…

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Puget Sound Off: Fostering Youth Civic Engagement through Citizen Journalism in a Local Community Context

Shelly D. Farnham, David Keyes, Vicky Yuki, Chris Tugwell

CSCW ’12 | February 2012

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Agent-Based Modeling

Dirk Helbing, Stefano Balietti

Social Self Organization, Agent-Based Modeling | 2012

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Reanimating Adulthood

Queer and Subjugated Knowledges: Generating Subversive Imaginaries | 2012

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Tweeting is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions

Meredith Ringel Morris, Scott Counts, Aaron Hoff, Asta Roseway

Proceedings of CSCW 2012 | February 2012

Best Paper Honorable Mention

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Social File Sharing in Facebook

Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D., Andrzej Turski, Sameer Halai

January 2012

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Personality and Patterns of Facebook Usage

Yoram Bachrach, , Michal Kosinski, Thore Graepel, Pushmeet Kohli, David Stillwell

ACM Web Sciences 2012 | January 2012

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Quality Expectation-Variance Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing Contests

Xi Alice Gao, Yoram Bachrach, Peter Key, Thore Graepel

AAAI 2012 | January 2012

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So.cl: An Interest Network for Informal Learning

Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D., Michal Lahav, David Raskino, Lili Cheng, Steve Ickman, Tom Laird-McConnell

AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media | January 2012

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