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Utilizing Facebook pages of the political parties to automatically predict the political orientation of Facebook users

David, Esther; Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Maayan; Koppel, Moshe; … - In: Online Information Review 40 (2016) 5, pp. 610-623

Purpose Social network sites have been widely adopted by politicians in the last election campaigns. To increase the effectiveness of these campaigns the potential electorate is to be identified, as targeted ads are much more effective than non-targeted ads. Therefore, the purpose of this paper...

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The possibilities and perils of academic social networking sites

Williams, Ann E; Woodacre, Melissa A. - In: Online Information Review 40 (2016) 2, pp. 282-294

social networks, while considering current limitations and potential avenues for future research; the second objective is … overarching outcomes of the review suggest that research on academic social networks falls into two primary arenas – promises (i …

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Evaluating authoritative sources using social networks: an insight from Wikipedia

Korfiatis, Nikolaos Th.; Poulos, Marios; Bokos, George - In: Online Information Review 30 (2006) 3, pp. 252-262

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluating contributions in collaborative authoring environments, and in particular, Wikis using social network measures. Design/methodology/approach – A social network model for Wikipedia has been constructed, and metrics of...

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Examining information exchange and virtual communities: an emergent framework

Hersberger, Julia A.; Murray, Adam L.; Rioux, Kevin S. - In: Online Information Review 31 (2007) 2, pp. 135-147

. Design/methdodology/approach – Established theories and models of community, social networks, information exchange, and …

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Extracting inter‐firm networks from the World Wide Web using a general‐purpose search engine

Jin, Yingzi; Ishizuka, Mitsuru; Matsuo, Yutaka - In: Online Information Review 32 (2008) 2, pp. 196-210

. This paper aims to present a new approach to extract inter‐firm networks from the web for further analysis. Design … query. Practical implications – This study proposes a new approach for extracting inter‐firm networks from the web. The … enhance inferential abilities on the business domain. Also we might use obtained networks to recommend business partners based …

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A rapid egocentric search scheme using authority estimation in blog space

Jeong, Yoonjae; Lee, Dongman - In: Online Information Review 32 (2008) 2, pp. 236-253

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to improve the egocentric search speed for important documents in neighbouring blogs. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a rapid egocentric search scheme that narrows down the search space to more important blogs. To determine which blogs...

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No place for news in social network web sites?

Thelwall, Mike - In: Online Information Review 32 (2008) 6, pp. 726-744

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which the news is discussed in social network web sites. Design/methodology/approach – This article reports a quantitative analysis of the text of 26,953 Windows Live Spaces from September 2006 to February 2007 using a heuristic...

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MySpace comments

Thelwall, Mike - In: Online Information Review 33 (2009) 1, pp. 58-76

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of social network comments to give a broad overview to serve as a baseline for future research. Design/methodology/approach – English comments from a representative sample of public MySpace profiles were examined with...

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An examination of social tagging interface features and functionalities

Shiri, Ali - In: Online Information Review 33 (2009) 5, pp. 901-919

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a comparative and analytical examination of ten social tagging systems' interfaces and their features and functionalities. The specific objective of the study was to examine the ways in which the user interfaces of social tagging systems...

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Personal knowledge management

Razmerita, Liana; Kirchner, Kathrin; Sudzina, Frantisek - In: Online Information Review 33 (2009) 6, pp. 1021-1039

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss new approaches for managing personal knowledge in the Web 2.0 era. The paper questions whether Web 2.0 technologies (social software) are a real panacea for the challenges associated with the management of knowledge. Can Web 2.0 reconcile the...

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