Specialization, homophily, and gender in a social curation site: Findings from pinterest

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 674-686

  Chang, Shuo ^a   Kumar, Vikas ^a   Gilbert, Eric ^b   Terveen, Loren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Social network; Topic detection; User profiling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL STORAGE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS; CURATION; HOMOPHILY; TOPIC DETECTION; USER PROFILING;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84898985861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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