Blending in Internet Communication: Linguistic and Creative Aspect (“VKontakte” Social Network)

Biotechnology and Social Aspect

Measuring, Predicting and Visualizing Short-Term Change in Word Representation and Usage in VKontakte Social Network

Language in social media is extremely dynamic: new words emerge, trend and disappear, while the meaning of existing words can fluctuate over time. This work addresses several important tasks of visualizing and predicting short term text representation shift, i.e. the change in a word’s contextual semantics. We study the relationship between short-term concept drift and representation shift on a...

Bacterial linguistic communication and social intelligence.

Bacteria have developed intricate communication capabilities (e.g. quorum-sensing, chemotactic signaling and plasmid exchange) to cooperatively self-organize into highly structured colonies with elevated environmental adaptability. We propose that bacteria use their intracellular flexibility, involving signal transduction networks and genomic plasticity, to collectively maintain linguistic comm...

Acceptance and Quality Perceptions of Social Network Services in Cultural Context: Vkontakte as a Case Study

In terms of network economics, as well as other information services, a social network service (SNS) has two chances—either it gains acceptance (“success breeds success”) and will become standard or it slowly dies. Nowadays, Facebook is the standard in the social network world, however, not in Russia’s and the neighboring countries’ social network communities. Here, Vkontakte, the domestic SNS,...

Linguistic Readymades and Creative Reuse

Creativity often arises from a process of appropriation, in which something is wrenched from its normative context of use and given new meaning in a new setting. In this vein, Marcel Duchamp popularized the notion of an artistic ready-made when his Fountain – a signed urinal – was presented with some controversy at a Dada exhibition in 1917. We normally think of readymades as physical objects w...