Web 2.0, Social Media, and Creative Consumers: Special Issue

Special Issue on Web Intelligence and Personalization on Social Media

The explosive growth of resources available through the Internet, especially the emergence of social media, has created highly interactive platforms for users to create, share, exchange information and build social networks. This special issue includes several research outcomes which aim to develop technologies to help people exploit the information online in order to satisfy their information ...

Special issue on knowledge management of web social media

Web social media includes computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, pictures, and videos in virtual communities and networks. Web social media is defined as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user generated content” [1]. Furthe...

Editorial: Special Issue on the Semantic and Social Web

The Social Web has grown considerably in the past eight years, with the emergence of sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and WordPress.com. Most sites on the Social Web offer similar functionality: users share content (be it photos, blog posts, videos, bookmarks, etc.); users connect with other users, either directly or via common interests often reflected by shared content; users add free-tex...

Special Issue on Location-based Social Media Analysis

Social media is immensely popular, with billions of users across various platform. The study of social media has allowed for deeper inquiries into questions posed by computer scientists, social scientists, and others. Social media posts tagged with location have provided means for researchers to perform even deeper analysis into their data. While location information allows for rich insight int...

Special issue: "Web retrieval and mining"