Social-Web Archive Contextualization: Cultural Dynamics, Social-Media Responses to News and Context-aware Social Search

In this document, we describe techniques and approaches concerned with social-web archive contextualization. In particular, we describe our work on cultural dynamics, which refers to gaining insights into cultural patterns in social media, context-aware social search, and social media mining. We examine the reaction of people in social media to news articles, by developing techniques that could help journalists and curators semi-automatically filter the most relevant content. We study social search and propose techniques to carry it out because it could be a crucial tool in finding relevant information for curators and journalists