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Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization over Time on Twitter
Sarita Yardi; danah boyd
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society Vol. 30, No. 5 (October 2010) pp. 316–327
The principle of homophily says that people associate with other groups of people who are mostly like themselves. Many online communities are structured around groups of socially similar individuals. On Twitter, however, people are exposed to...
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An HCI Approach to Computing in the Real World
Sarita Yardi; Pamela Krolikowski; Taneshia Marshall; Amy Bruckman
Journal on Educational Resources in Computing Vol. 8, No. 3 (October 2008)
We describe the implementation of a six-week course to teach Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to high school students. Our goal was to explore the potential of HCI in motivating students to pursue future studies in related computing fields....