Using Social Media Data Aggregators to Do Social Research

Assessing Privacy in Social Media Aggregators

Social Media Aggregator (SMA) applications present a platform enabling users to manage multiple Social Networking Sites (SNS) in one convenient application, which results in a unique concentration of data from several SNS accounts in addition to the user’s mobile phone data available to them. We describe a three-step methodology to assess how privacy is considered in these applications: 1) We i...

Social aggregators

This paper proposes a general framework for analyzing a class of functions called social aggregators, which map profiles of linear orders to a set of binary relations. This class of aggregators includes aggregators that yield a preference relation (social welfare functions) and those which yield a choice of an alternative (social choice functions). Equipped with this framework, I identify a pro...

Social Media Data in Research: Provenance Challenges

Using social media to facilitate medical students’ interest in research

O f late, the use of social media has spread worldwide and there is a massive number of international users. According to reports from Facebook (1) and Twitter (2) during the second quarter of 2014, the number of active users reached 1.32 billion and 271 million, respectively. That being said, several studies have reported overwhelming responses from medical students using social media networki...

Using 3D Printing to Visualize Social Media Big Data

Big data volume continues to grow at unprecedented rates. One of the key features that makes big data valuable is the promise to find unknown patterns or correlations that may be able to improve the quality of processes or systems. Unfortunately, with the exponential growth in data, users often have difficulty in visualizing the often-unstructured, nonhomogeneous data coming from a variety of s...