Platform operators have devoted significant effort to combating misinformation on behalf of their users. Users are also stakeholders in this battle, but efforts combat go unsupported by the platforms. In work, we consider three new user affordances that give social media users greater power fight against misinformation: (1) ability provide structured accuracy assessments posts, (2) user-specifi...

In Structured peer-to-peer systems, there are several problems hard to tackle. First, loads on different peers are difficult to balance. Since the peers in the system can be heterogenous, it is not fair to distribute equal load to every peer. In Chord, the authors argued that one peer with large capacity can occupy several nodes on the ring to relieve the pressure on other peers. In fact, there...

This paper reports two studies into the efficacy of sentence openers to foster online peer-to-peer interaction. Sentence openers are pre-defined ways to start an utterance that are implemented in communication facilities as menu’s or buttons. In the first study, typical opening phrases were derived from naturally occurring online dialogues. The resulting set of sentence openers was implemented ...

This study used a developmental-ecological approach to investigate the relationship across the school year between early problems in preschool classroom situations and a comprehensive set of readiness competencies for urban low-income children. Study 1 identified 3 reliable and unique underlying classroom situational dimensions where behavior problems occurred: structured learning, peer interac...

This study explores how students deal with material resources in their peer interaction when working pairs an open-ended problem-solving task. The productive use of can be expected to support successful work. However, research into social phenomena is needed order identify and describe less forms dealing as participate tasks. Consequently, this explorative responds need. Based on multimodal dat...