Trust in Social Media: Enhancing Social Relationships

Enhancing Social TV through Social Media Mining

Online professionalism: social media, social contracts, trust, and medicine.

The AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) has initiated an important discussion on medical professionalism and the use of social media by issuing thoughtful and practical guidance for physicians and medical students. The implications of online activities for trust in the profession, as well as for trust between patient and doctor, however, will need further exploration as digital l...

Aggregating Social Media for Enhancing Conference Experiences

A scientific conference is a type of event where attendees have a tremendous activity on social media platforms. Participants tweet or post longer status messages, engage in discussions with comments, share slides and other media captured during the conference. This information can be used to generate informative reports of what is happening, where (which specific room) and when (which time slo...

Investigating the Effect of Social Media on Trust Building in Customer-supplier Relationships

Trust is a concept that has been widely studied in e-commerce since it represents a key issue in building successful customer-supplier relationships. In this sense, social software represents a powerful channel for establishing a direct communication with customers. As a consequence, companies are now investing in social media for building their social digital brand and strengthening relationsh...

Inferring Trust Relationships in Web-based Social Networks

The growth of web-based social networking and the properties of those networks have created great potential for producing intelligent software that integrates a user's social network and preferences. Our research looks particularly at assigning trust in web-based social nets and investigates how trust information can be mined and integrated into applications. This paper introduces a definition ...