Browsing by Subject "social networks"
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Board Interlocks and the Diffusion of Strategic Actions
(2014-04-10)Research on the diffusion of strategic actions through board interlocks has mainly focused on the dyad level, meaning the one-on-one relations between a focal firm and its interlocked firm. The structural embeddedness of ... -
Local Experts in Social Media
(2013-12-04)The problem of finding topic experts on social networking sites has been a continued topic of research. This thesis addresses the problem of identifying local experts in social media systems like Twitter. Local experts ... -
Mexican-Origin Interregional Migration from the Southwest: Human, Household, and Community Capital Hypotheses
(2010-01-16)This research addresses the question of what factors lead Mexican-origin individuals living in the U.S. to seek a new residence outside their Southwestern state of residence. The analysis examines three hypotheses: (1) the ... -
Needs Assessment of Agricultural, Environmental, and Social Systems of Small Farmers in Chimaltenango, Guatemala
(2011-02-22)Providing support for the agricultural development of small farmers is the main goal of the project Agriculture in Guatemala: Technology, Education and Commercialization (AGTEC). To accomplish this, it is necessary, to ... -
Playing Hide-and-Seek with Spammers: Detecting Evasive Adversaries in the Online Social Network Domain
(2012-10-19)Online Social Networks (OSNs) have seen an enormous boost in popularity in recent years. Along with this popularity has come tribulations such as privacy concerns, spam, phishing and malware. Many recent works have focused ... -
Racializing the Migration Process: An Ethnographic Analysis of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States
(2011-08-06)From the exterior, the United States has extracted natural resources and transformed the social dynamics of those living on the periphery, contributing to the emigration from Mexico and immigration to the United States. ... -
The Role of Strategic Beliefs in Understanding Strategic, Pro-Social and Socially Complementary Behavior
(2018-05-03)This dissertation includes three experimental studies discussing the role of strategic beliefs in understanding strategic, pro-social and socially complementary behavior. The first essay, “Testing Stepwise Reasoning”, ...