The value of the unpopular: Counteracting the popularity echo-chamber on the web

TIC-STH'09: 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 603-608

  Treviranus, Jutta ^a   Hockema, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Minority views; Normal: 'echo chamber'; Popularity; Social networking; Values; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; NEW PROJECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; WEB 2.0; WEB APPLICATION;

RISK ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77952679397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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