The dynamics of mass interaction
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The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society
The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
Why distance matters: effects on cooperation, persuasion and deception
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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A familiar face(book): profile elements as signals in an online social network
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The truth about lying in online dating profiles
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Changes in use and perception of facebook
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The rise of middle and upper middle class in emerging markets: product and service opportunities
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat
Predicting tie strength with social media
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Pursuing genius loci: interaction design and natural places
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Chinese online communities: balancing managementcontrol and individual autonomy
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
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Collaboration on Social Network Sites: Amateurs, Professionals and Celebrities
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Ubiquitous sketching for social media
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Geographic information from georeferenced social media data
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A geographic study of tie strength in social media
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"I regretted the minute I pressed share": a qualitative study of regrets on Facebook
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
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Predicting tie strength in a new medium
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Income, race, and class: exploring socioeconomic differences in family technology use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designed for work, but not from here: rural and remote perspectives on networked technology
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Street-Level trust semantics for attribute authentication
SP'12 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Security Protocols
Location prediction in social media based on tie strength
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
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Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowledge on how to design for them. To address this gap, our empirical paper investigates behavioral differences between more than 3,000 rural and urban social media users. Using a dataset collected from a broadly popular social network site, we analyze users' profiles, 340,000 online friendships and 200,000 interpersonal messages. Using social capital theory, we predict differences between rural and urban users and find strong evidence supporting our hypotheses. Namely, rural people articulate far fewer friends online, and those friends live much closer to home. Our results also indicate that the groups have substantially different gender distributions and use privacy features differently. We conclude by discussing design implications drawn from our findings; most importantly, designers should reconsider the binary friend-or-not model to allow for incremental trust-building.