
Observations sociologiques du web & des internautes
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The Internet is Underrated: A Note on Activism
[2010] [FR] Etude des pratiques internet liées à la mode
[2010] How The World Spends Its Time Online |
<a href="http://www.creditloan.com/blog/2010/06/16/how-the-world-spends-its-time-online/"><img src="http://www.creditloan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/timespentonline.gif" alt="timespentonline"/></a> How the World Spends Its Time Online Nielsen periodically releases data from its studies of consumer behavior online. Here are the latest findings regarding social networking, branding and world net usage. Total Time Spent WorldwideOver the past year I've been following the work of Dr. Bernardo Huberman, director of HP Labs’ Social Computing Lab , and his team. HP has been applying rigorous scientific practices to the study of social media and it has a gold mine of research open to the public. It is worth emphasizing that HP's studies are designed to the highest scientific standards; they are not isolated case studies or the musings of a "social media expert." They typically involve very large numbers of people and thus they reveal some fundamental aspects of our increasingly online culture.
HP study finds weak link between online popularity and influence
Source: SIGIR, ACM Press, Geneva, Switzerland (2010) Abstract: How does the web search behavior of ``rich'' and ``poor'' people differ?

