"Social media describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. A few prominent examples of social media applications are Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), YouTube (video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), Digg (news sharing), Flickr (photo sharing) and Miniclip (game sharing). These sites typically use technologies such as blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and vlogs to allow users to interact."
The scope is intended to cover research in many disciplines -- technical, analytic, linguistic, cultural, social, policy, economic, etc. Relevant technical topics include NLP, information extraction, sentiment detection, opinion extraction, community modeling, , tagging, graph-based modeling and analysis, semantic web applications, data blogging, trust, influence, social network analysis, event detection, trend/buzz analysis, and machine learning.
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