This is not the most interesting blog post, but I need to make public my personal notes on what papers were interesting at HICSS. So here is the list, with my short summaries and links to the papers.
Agents of Diffusion – Insights from a Survey of Facebook Users, Rebecca Ermecke, Philip Mayrhofer, Stefan Wagner
On viral adoption on Facebook
Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter, Courtenay Honeycutt, Susan C. Herring
How people use the @ reply mechanism in Twitter. Did you know that 30% of messages get replies?
A Conceptual and Operational Definition of ‘Social Role’ in Online Community, Eric Gleave, Howard T. Welser, Thomas M. Lento, Marc A. Smith
A theoretical paper on determing social roles in an online community. Best paper award for the Track.
Hello Stranger! A Study of Introductory Communication Structure and Social Match Success, Daphne R. Raban, Stephen T. Ricken, Sukeshini A., Grandhi, Nathaniel Laws, and Quentin Jones
Social introductions.
Mycrocosm: Visual Microblogging, Yannick Assogba, Judith Donath
Overview of the mycrocosm service.
Cyber Migration: An Empirical Investigation on Factors that Affect Users’ Switch Intentions in Social Networking Sites, Cheng Zengyan, Yang Yinping, John Lim
What triggers migration between different social network sites?
A Life Cycle Model of Virtual Communities, Elham Mousavidin, Lakshmi Goel
The lifecycle and stages of an online community
Knowledge Workers and the Realm of Social Tagging, Ralph Boeije, Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten, Pieter de Vries, Wim Veen
Social tagging by workers.
Groupware for Design: an Interactive System to Facilitate Creative Processes in Team Design Work, Arjun Venkataswamy, Rajinder Sodhi, Yerkin Abdildin, Brian P. Bailey
How do you design groupware that is specifically supposed to support the creative process of team design work?
Cultural Diversity, Perception of Work Atmosphere, and Task Conflict in Collaboration Technology Supported Global Virtual Teams: Findings from a Laboratory Experiment, Souren Paul, Sumati Ray
I already blogged about this one and how it is an interesting finding about conflict and cultural differences in distributed teams.
Blogs Are Echo Chambers: Blogs Are Echo Chambers, Eric Gilbert, Tony Bergstrom and Karrie Karahalios
Are bloggers talking to like-minded bloggers?
Employee Adoption of Corporate Blogs: A Quantitative Analysis, Sunil Wattal, Pradeep Racherla, Munir Mandviwalla
Model of when/why employees start blogging.
Monetizing the Internet: Surely There Must be Something other than Advertising, Eric K. Clemons
Great title and interesting discussion of some other possibilities for making money on the internet, besides through advertising.