We introduce vlogs as a type of rich human interaction which is multimodal in nature and suitable for new largescale behavioral data analysis. The automatic analysis of vlogs is u...
Abstract--The increasing popularity of social media is shortening the distance between people. Social activities, e.g., tagging in Flickr, bookmarking in Delicious, twittering in T...
The emergence of social media brings chances, but also challenges, to linguistic analysis. In this paper we investigate a novel problem of discovering patterns based on emotion an...
The variety of engaging interactions among users in social medial distinguishes it from traditional Web media. Such a feature should be utilized while attempting to provide intell...
Jia Wang, Qing Li, Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Zhangxi Lin
Social media systems have encouraged end user participation in the Internet, for the purpose of storing and distributing Internet content, sharing opinions and maintaining relatio...
Jun Wang, Maarten Clements, Jie Yang, Arjen P. de ...
As the social interaction of Internet users increases, so does the need to effectively rank social media. We study the challenges of personalized ranking of blog posts. Web search...
Hassan Sayyadi, John Edmonds, Vagelis Hristidis, L...
This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...
The rise of social media sites — blogs, wikis, and Digg — underscores the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are collaboratively creating, eval...
Social media are constructed from the collective contributions of potentially millions of individuals and present an increasingly common and large scale form of database. As these...
The ever-increasing amount of information flowing through Social Media forces the members of these networks to compete for attention and influence by relying on other people to sp...
Daniel M. Romero, Wojciech Galuba, Sitaram Asur, B...