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Researching Social News – Is reddit.com a mouthpiece for the ‘Hive Mind’, or a Collective Intelligence approach to Information Overload?

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Researching Social News – Is reddit.com a mouthpiece for the ‘Hive Mind’, or a Collective Intelligence approach to Information Overload? / Mills, Richard.
ETHICOMP 2011 Proceedings. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University, 2011.

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Mills, R 2011, Researching Social News – Is reddit.com a mouthpiece for the ‘Hive Mind’, or a Collective Intelligence approach to Information Overload? in ETHICOMP 2011 Proceedings. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield.

APA

Mills, R. (2011). Researching Social News – Is reddit.com a mouthpiece for the ‘Hive Mind’, or a Collective Intelligence approach to Information Overload? In ETHICOMP 2011 Proceedings Sheffield Hallam University.

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Mills R. Researching Social News – Is reddit.com a mouthpiece for the ‘Hive Mind’, or a Collective Intelligence approach to Information Overload? In ETHICOMP 2011 Proceedings. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University. 2011

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Mills, Richard. / Researching Social News – Is reddit.com a mouthpiece for the ‘Hive Mind’, or a Collective Intelligence approach to Information Overload?. ETHICOMP 2011 Proceedings. Sheffield : Sheffield Hallam University, 2011.

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abstract = "Distributed moderation and filtering systems are becoming increasingly common on the web. This paper examines reddit.com, a Social News website where users vote to determine which stories will be featured in high-visibility locations. User voting activity and attention are found to be highly concentrated on the website{\textquoteright}s front page. The consequences of this are considered, chiefly by studying reddit{\textquoteright}s coverage of a major news story. Minority opinions are found to be slightly marginalised but not excluded from high-visibility locations. The paper concludes by discussing some positive and negative effects of the emphasis reddit places on its front page and the collective decisions about which items appear there.",
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