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Realizing the value of social media requires innovative computing research

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How social media are expanding traditional research and development topics for computer and information scientists.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 9
      September 2011
      121 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/1995376
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