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Social Networking on the World Wide Web

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Synonyms

SNS; Social network sites; Social networking services; Social networking sites

Glossary

Collective Intelligence:

Shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence).

Crowdsourcing:

The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crowdsourcing).

Human Flesh Search, HFS:

Is the phenomenon of distributed researching using Internet media such as blogs, forums, microblog, etc. (Zhang et al. 2012).

Microblog:

A broadcast medium that exists in the form of blog, with content that has a typically smaller size.

Social Computing, Computational Social Science:

Computational facilitation of social studies and human social...

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  1. Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

    Qingpeng Zhang & Dominic DiFranzo

  2. Computer and Cognitive Science Departments, Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

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Zhang, Q., DiFranzo, D., Hendler, J.A. (2014). Social Networking on the World Wide Web. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_104

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