Michael L. Best

According to our database, Michael L. Best authored at least 37 papers between 1993 and 2023.

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2023

Hate Speech Detection in Limited Data Contexts using Synthetic Data Generation.

Aman Khullar, Daniel Nkemelu, Cuong V. Nguyen, Michael L. Best

CoRR, 2023

Tackling Hate Speech in Low-resource Languages with Context Experts.

Daniel Nkemelu, Harshil Shah, Irfan Essa, Michael L. Best

CoRR, 2023

Why are Some Makerspaces not so Male-Dominated.

Mizan Rahman, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 2023

2022

Why So Inflammatory? Explainability in Automatic Detection of Inflammatory Social Media Users.

Cuong V. Nguyen, Daniel Nkemelu, Ankit Mehta, Michael L. Best

CoRR, 2022

A COVID-19 Social Media Monitoring and Outreach Dashboard for Community-Based Trusted Messengers.

Amy Z. Chen, Andrew H. Zhao, Chae-eun Park, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the Workshop Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022

Understanding Accessibility Issues in China's Contact Tracing Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Visually Impaired People.

Huaigu Li, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the BDE 2022: 4th International Conference on Big Data Engineering, Beijing, China, May 26, 2022

2020

Are we losing momentum?

Carlos Iglesias, Dhanaraj Thakur, Michael L. Best

Commun. ACM, 2020

2019

The social impact of open government data in Hong Kong: Umbrella Movement protests and adversarial politics.

Amanda Meng, Carl F. DiSalvo, Lokman Tsui, Michael L. Best

Inf. Soc., 2019

2018

Session details: Global computing.

Michael L. Best

Commun. ACM, 2018

Collaborative Information Seeking through Social Media Updates in Real-Time.

Karthik Bhat, Andrés Moreno, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2018

2016

Mobile computing and political transformation.

Michael L. Best

Commun. ACM, 2016

A First Look at "Eyes on the Vote".

Ellen W. Zegura, Pratik Gangwani, Gaurav Phadke, Elyse Hampton, Vikram Marun, Amanda Meng, Trey Washington, Paul Wilson, Carlos Rosales, Michael Jablonski, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2016

Lessons in Social Election Monitoring.

Thomas N. Smyth, Amanda Meng, Andrés Moreno, Michael L. Best, Ellen W. Zegura

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2016

2015

Twitter democracy: policy versus identity politics in three emerging African democracies.

Michael L. Best, Amanda Meng

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2015

2014

The internet that Facebook built.

Michael L. Best

Commun. ACM, 2014

Thinking outside the continent.

Michael L. Best

Commun. ACM, 2014

2013

Peacebuilding in a networked world.

Michael L. Best

Commun. ACM, 2013

Tweet to trust: social media and elections in West Africa.

Thomas N. Smyth, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the International conference on information and communication technologies and development, 2013

2012

Sharing in public: working with others in Ghanaian cybercafés.

Michael L. Best, Bence Kollanyi, Sunil Garg

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2012

2011

Global/Local Usability: Locally Contextualized Usability in the Global South.

Michael L. Best, Thomas N. Smyth

Proceedings of the Global Usability, 2011

2010

MOSES: exploring new ground in media and post-conflict reconciliation.

Thomas N. Smyth, John Etherton, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

2009

Uses of mobile phones in post-conflict Liberia.

Michael L. Best, Edem Wornyo, Thomas N. Smyth, John Etherton

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2009

The contribution of user-based subsidies to the impact and sustainability of telecenters - the eCenter project in Kyrgyzstan.

Michael L. Best, Dhanaraj Thakur, Beth E. Kolko

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2009

Designing for and with diaspora: a case study of work for the truth and reconciliation commission of liberia.

Michael L. Best, Thomas N. Smyth, Daniel Serrano-Baquero, John Etherton

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009

2007

Democratic and Anti-Democratic Regulators of the Internet: A Framework.

Michael L. Best, Keegan W. Wade

Inf. Soc., 2007

Post-conflict communications: the case of Liberia.

Michael L. Best, Kipp Jones, Illenin Kondo, Dhanaraj Thakur, Edem Wornyo, Calvin Yu

Commun. ACM, 2007

2006

Impact and Sustainability of E-Government Services in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned from Tamil Nadu, India.

Rajendra Kumar, Michael L. Best

Inf. Soc., 2006

Social Impact and Diffusion of Telecenter Use: A Study from the Sustainable Access in Rural India Project.

Rajendra Kumar, Michael L. Best

J. Community Informatics, 2006

2003

Convivo communicator: An interface-adaptive VoIP system for poor quality networks.

Marco A. Escobar, Michael L. Best

J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc., 2003

2002

Community knowledge sharing: an Internet application to support communications across literacy levels.

Hani Umar Shakeel, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society, 2002

2001

Comparing Urban and Rural Telecenters Costs.

Hani Umar Shakeel, Michael L. Best, Bruno Miller, Sam Weber

Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries., 2001

1999

How Culture Can Guide Evolution: An Inquiry into Gene/Meme Enhancement and Opposition.

Michael L. Best

Adapt. Behav., 1999

Coevolving Mutualists Guide Simulated Evolution.

Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 1999), 1999

Rural connected communities: a project in online collaborative journalism.

Marina Umaschi Bers, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, 1999

1996

File-Access Characteristics of Parallel Scientific Workloads.

Nils Nieuwejaar, David Kotz, Apratim Purakayastha, Carla Schlatter Ellis, Michael L. Best

IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst., 1996

1995

Characterizing parallel file-access patterns on a large-scale multiprocessor.

Apratim Purakayastha, Carla Schlatter Ellis, David Kotz, Nils Nieuwejaar, Michael L. Best

Proceedings of IPPS '95, 1995

1993

CMMD I/O: A Parallel Unix I/O.

Michael L. Best, Adam Greenberg, Craig Stanfill, Lewis W. Tucker

Proceedings of the Seventh International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1993