Tools for Social Media User-Generated Content Similarity Assessment

Similarity measurement for describe user images in social media

Online social networks like Instagram are places for communication. Also, these media produce rich metadata which are useful for further analysis in many fields including health and cognitive science. Many researchers are using these metadata like hashtags, images, etc. to detect patterns of user activities. However, there are several serious ambiguities like how much reliable are these informa...

User-Generated Content in Social Media

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 17301 “User-Generated Content in Social Media”. Social media have a profound impact on individuals, businesses, and society. As users post vast amounts of text and multimedia content every minute, the analysis of this user generated content (UGC) can offer insights to individual and societal concerns and could be beneficial ...

Understanding User-Generated Content on Social Media

Nagarajan, Bala Meenakshi, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, 2010. Understanding User-generated Content on Social Media. Over the last few years, there has been a growing public and enterprise fascination with ‘social media’ and its role in modern society. At the heart of this fascination is the ability for users to participate, collaborate, consume...

Social Media - Fundamentals, Models, and Ranking of User-Generated Content

Social Media Competition: Differentiation with User-Generated Content

This paper studies competition between social media sites in a game theoretic framework. We model three important institutional features of social media sites: (i) firms’ content is usually “user-generated”; (ii) consumers’ preferences are governed by local network effects, and (iii) consumers have strong tendencies to multi-home. In such a setting, ex-ante identical sites can acquire different...