Testing a walkthrough methodology for theory-based design of walk-up-and-use interfaces
CHI '90 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cognitive walkthrough for the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Community Networks--Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia
Community Networks--Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia
Amazon.com Recommendations: Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering
IEEE Internet Computing
Information diffusion through blogspace
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Graph evolution: Densification and shrinking diameters
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities
Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis
dg.o '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Signed networks in social media
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluating software for communities using social affordances
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Whoo.ly: facilitating information seeking for hyperlocal communities using social media
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Encouraging civic participation through local news aggregation
Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
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Being able to debate, reflect, form opinions, consider counter evidence and make informed decisions is a foundation of civic life in democratic societies. Government benefits from broad participation in collective decision making in terms of sustainable outcomes (e.g., greater consensus) and quality of life in our cities and communities. These collective decision making capabilities are undermined by a strange combination of diminishing (or extinct) local print media, especially local newspapers, and by its obverse, a plethora of information and communication opportunities that are scattered across numerous disparate and decentralized websites and resources (e.g., webpages, RSS feeds, social network software, email, listservs, podcasts, tweets). To address this problem, a number of news aggregators have emerged that capture local content from dispersed sites. To facilitate civic engagement, these sites also need to support social interaction and information exchange. In this paper we review the state of the art in local news aggregation in the US and their support for social affordances (social trust, networks and interaction) that are essential to civic participation. We present a prototype we have developed for local news aggregation that supports social affordances. We summarize briefly the design strategies and techniques (e.g., algorithms) we used to cluster topics and user generated content derived from existing local sources. The prototype should lead to a replicable model for other US communities.