An understanding of how people in social networks consume news media by and about their friends shows that information overload is soon going to be a major problem for many partic...
Directed links in social media could represent anything from intimate friendships to common interests, or even a passion for breaking news or celebrity gossip. Such directed links...
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have ...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bru...
This paper presents a novel social media summarization framework. Summarizing media created and shared in large scale online social networks unfolds challenging research problems....
In countries such as China or Iran where Internet censorship is prevalent, users usually rely on proxies or anonymizers to freely access the web. The obvious difficulty with this a...