Mark, G., S. Abrams, et al. 2003. "Group-to-Group Distance Collaboration: Examining the 'Space Between'." Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Computer-supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2003), Helsinki, Finland: 99 - 118.
Abrams, S. 2004. "Two-mode Social Network Analysis as Exploratory Tool for CSCW: Technology Adoption and Use." ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004), Workshop on Social Networks. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Mark, G. and S. Abrams. 2004. "Sensemaking and Design Practices on Large-scale Group-to-Group Collaboration." Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004), Workshop. Vienna, Austria. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~redmiles/chiworkshop/papers/Mark.pdf
Abrams, S. 2004. "Misattributions and Differential Sensemaking in Distributed, Concurrent Design." Concurrent Engineering Workshop for Space Applications, European Space Agency, ESTEC; Noordwijk, The Netherlands: 8 pp.
Mark, G. and S. Abrams. 2005. "Differential Interaction and Attribution in Collocated and Distributed Large-scale Collaboration." Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii, Computer Society Press. 10 pages.
Abrams, S. 2005. "Sensemaking in Partiually-Distributed Teams: Antecedents to Collective Deciding in Mediated Interaction." University of California, Irvine. Donald Bren school of Information and Computer Sciences. 2005.11.04. 53pp. (unpublished advancement survey paper).
Abrams, S. and DeFlorio, P. 2006. "More than Videoconferencing: Trials of a Sidebar Voice System for Distributed Studies." 2nd Concurrent Engineering Workshop for Space Applications, European Space Agency, ESTEC; Noordwijk, The Netherlands. 19-20 October 2006 8 pp.
Abrams, S. and Smaragd Grün (alias). To be published in 2007 by the University of Texas Press. "Mundanes at the Gate ... and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online ." In Electronic Tribes: the Human and Social implications of Internet Communciations. Tyrone Adams and Steven smith (Eds.). University of Texas Press.
The slash fan fiction community is an anomaly, sometime self-righteously so. Flouting religious, social, and legal mores by celebrating homoerotic expression through extending someone else's intellectual property – in directions often deemed unacceptable by the dominant society in which slash fans are embedded -- is not obviously conducive to the establishment of either common identity or stable community. Yet, over the past three decades, this community has not only survived, but has followed the Internet's growth in both scale and scope of activities to result in a wide variety of slash content production, consumption, and discussion on the Internet. We examine this clandestine community through the lens of "asabiya," a term used by 14th century Arab scholar ibn Khaldoun to describe social identity and cohesion, to understand this survival and growth. We identify how slash fans use the technological affordances of LiveJournal.com to sustain their asabiya, against both internal and external threats, and we develop an understanding of how this online practice of slash results in the emergence of both semi-tribal (based on shared activities) and tribal (based on affective relationships) groupings.
Abrams, S. and Mark, G. 2007. "Network-Centricity: Overcoming Hierarchical Anchors." 1st Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information technology (CHIMIT07). Cambridge, MA USA. March 30-31, 2007. (forthcoming)