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

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Vieweg. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783658069841
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.231
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Contents:
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 User-Generated Content -- 2.1 What User-Generated Content Is and What It Is Not -- 2.1.1 Terminology for Key Concepts Used in this Work -- 2.1.2 The Variety of Terminologies in Related Works -- 2.1.3 Social Media Categories Used in this Work -- 2.2 The Value of User-Generated Content -- 2.2.1 A Short History of Publication -- 2.2.2 Social Media Becomes a News Source -- 2.2.3 Social Media Empowers Civil Movements -- 2.2.4 Social Media Facilitates Ethical Consumerism -- 2.2.5 Social Media Supports Word-of-Mouth -- 2.2.6 Social Media Extends Market Research -- 2.2.7 Intentions Determine the Value of Social Media -- 2.3 Users' Strategies to Interpret Metadata Today -- 2.4 Existing Approaches Lack Cross-Platform Compatibility -- 3 Metadata in User-Generated Content -- 3.1 Analysis of Metadata for User-Generated Content -- 3.1.1 Blogs -- 3.1.2 Forums -- 3.1.3 Location Sharing and Annotation Platforms -- 3.1.4 Media Sharing Platforms -- 3.1.5 Microblogs -- 3.1.6 Question and Answer Platforms -- 3.1.7 Rating and Review Platforms -- 3.1.8 Social Networks -- 3.2 Cross-Category Comparison of Metadata -- 3.3 From Data to Information: Semantics of Metadata -- 3.3.1 Why It Matters Who the Author Is -- 3.3.2 Why It Matters Where Something Is Published -- 3.3.3 What the Content Reveals -- 3.3.4 What Other People Tell Us -- 3.4 The Social Media Document View -- 4 Towards Query-Independent Ranking -- 4.1 User Information Needs and Search Strategies -- 4.2 Query-Dependent and Query-Independent Ranking -- 4.2.1 Ranking in Information Retrieval -- 4.2.2 Query-Independent Ranking for Web Page Retrieval -- 4.3 Shortcomings of Traditional Information Retrieval Concepts -- 5 A Cross-Platform Ranking Approach.
5.1 Five Scores Reflecting the Social Media Document View -- 5.2 Cross-Platform Compatibility Creates Comparability -- 5.3 An Example Case for Forums and Media Sharing Platforms -- 6 Applications -- 6.1 A Discovery Engine for User-Generated Content -- 6.2 A Search Engine for User-Generated Content -- 7 Conclusion -- 7.1 Summary -- 7.2 Extensions and Further Research -- Appendix: Collection of User-Generated Content Metadata -- Measures in Blogs -- Measures in Forums -- Measures in Location Sharing and Annotation Platforms -- Measures in Media Sharing Platforms -- Measures in Microblogs -- Measures in Question and Answer Platforms -- Measures in Rating and Review Platforms -- Measures in Social Networks -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 User-Generated Content -- 2.1 What User-Generated Content Is and What It Is Not -- 2.1.1 Terminology for Key Concepts Used in this Work -- 2.1.2 The Variety of Terminologies in Related Works -- 2.1.3 Social Media Categories Used in this Work -- 2.2 The Value of User-Generated Content -- 2.2.1 A Short History of Publication -- 2.2.2 Social Media Becomes a News Source -- 2.2.3 Social Media Empowers Civil Movements -- 2.2.4 Social Media Facilitates Ethical Consumerism -- 2.2.5 Social Media Supports Word-of-Mouth -- 2.2.6 Social Media Extends Market Research -- 2.2.7 Intentions Determine the Value of Social Media -- 2.3 Users' Strategies to Interpret Metadata Today -- 2.4 Existing Approaches Lack Cross-Platform Compatibility -- 3 Metadata in User-Generated Content -- 3.1 Analysis of Metadata for User-Generated Content -- 3.1.1 Blogs -- 3.1.2 Forums -- 3.1.3 Location Sharing and Annotation Platforms -- 3.1.4 Media Sharing Platforms -- 3.1.5 Microblogs -- 3.1.6 Question and Answer Platforms -- 3.1.7 Rating and Review Platforms -- 3.1.8 Social Networks -- 3.2 Cross-Category Comparison of Metadata -- 3.3 From Data to Information: Semantics of Metadata -- 3.3.1 Why It Matters Who the Author Is -- 3.3.2 Why It Matters Where Something Is Published -- 3.3.3 What the Content Reveals -- 3.3.4 What Other People Tell Us -- 3.4 The Social Media Document View -- 4 Towards Query-Independent Ranking -- 4.1 User Information Needs and Search Strategies -- 4.2 Query-Dependent and Query-Independent Ranking -- 4.2.1 Ranking in Information Retrieval -- 4.2.2 Query-Independent Ranking for Web Page Retrieval -- 4.3 Shortcomings of Traditional Information Retrieval Concepts -- 5 A Cross-Platform Ranking Approach.

5.1 Five Scores Reflecting the Social Media Document View -- 5.2 Cross-Platform Compatibility Creates Comparability -- 5.3 An Example Case for Forums and Media Sharing Platforms -- 6 Applications -- 6.1 A Discovery Engine for User-Generated Content -- 6.2 A Search Engine for User-Generated Content -- 7 Conclusion -- 7.1 Summary -- 7.2 Extensions and Further Research -- Appendix: Collection of User-Generated Content Metadata -- Measures in Blogs -- Measures in Forums -- Measures in Location Sharing and Annotation Platforms -- Measures in Media Sharing Platforms -- Measures in Microblogs -- Measures in Question and Answer Platforms -- Measures in Rating and Review Platforms -- Measures in Social Networks -- Bibliography -- Index.

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