Special issue: When social media meets physical world

Special issue on knowledge management of web social media

Web social media includes computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, pictures, and videos in virtual communities and networks. Web social media is defined as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user generated content” [1]. Furthe...

Special Issue on Location-based Social Media Analysis

Social media is immensely popular, with billions of users across various platform. The study of social media has allowed for deeper inquiries into questions posed by computer scientists, social scientists, and others. Social media posts tagged with location have provided means for researchers to perform even deeper analysis into their data. While location information allows for rich insight int...

Special Issue on Web Intelligence and Personalization on Social Media

The explosive growth of resources available through the Internet, especially the emergence of social media, has created highly interactive platforms for users to create, share, exchange information and build social networks. This special issue includes several research outcomes which aim to develop technologies to help people exploit the information online in order to satisfy their information ...

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MakeMyPage: Social Media Meets Automatic Content Generation

Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irrelevant information. MakeMyPage aims to speed this process by combining automatic aggregation of information with social media to build web pages with images, videos and links to important information about a topic. Ma...