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Individuals with autism need a network of support to overcome the wide range of challenges in their daily life. Social media hold the promise for improving the quality of life of individuals with autism by offering remote advice for these daily challenges. In the paper, we study an online autism forum as a social question-and-answer (Q&A) venue. We examine 1,277 threads on the forum to characterize...
This paper describes our proposed approach for computational analysis of thematic blog data through a novel combine of sophisticated Information Retrieval and Language Processing Techniques. We have implemented algorithms for Topic Modeling, Entity Extraction and Sentiment Classification with a view to draw sociologically relevant inferences from freeform unstructured social media data. Our experimental...
This exploratory empirical research looks at the impact of societal culture on organizational social media. Data from 500 organizations regarding their external use of social media has been collected and analyzed. The findings indicate that societal culture is indeed a determinator of organizational social media.
The goal of this study was to build a conceptual foundation for the educational use of Web 2.0 social computing technology by conducting an analysis of the studies reporting pedagogical uses of wikis, blogs, and threaded discussion forums. The analysis included an identification of the distinguishing and the shared characteristics of each of these asynchronous computer mediated communication tools,...
Social media are more than just a buzzword or an interesting phenomenon to our teenagers, they are a way of life. Research shows that active participation on sites like Facebook, communicating via texting and chat programs, and creating blogs are everyday occurrences for a generation of students. Yet these same students do not consider the impact of these tools on their lives for good or ill. Furthermore,...
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