Sarita Yardi

TL;DR: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out as mentioned in this paper investigates the intricate dynamics of youths' social and recreational use of digital media, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings.

TL;DR: The authors found that replies between like-minded individuals strengthen group identity, whereas replies between differentminded individuals reinforce in-group and out-group affiliation, and concluded that people are exposed to broader viewpoints than they were before but are limited in their ability to engage in meaningful discussion.

TL;DR: This article examines spam around a one-time Twitter meme—“robotpickuplines” and shows the existence of structural network differences between spam accounts and legitimate users, highlighting challenges in disambiguating spammers from legitimate users.

TL;DR: This SIG will investigate technology mediated social participation through a critical lens, discussing both the potential positive and negative outcomes of such participation.