It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Social Media -- WSM'09. This workshop aims to be the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of social media research, including models, systems, applications, and theory. The mission of the workshop is to share novel ideas, methods and techniques that address the emerging challenges of social media research and identify new directions for future research and development. WSM gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of social media.
The call for papers attracted 20 submissions from Asia, Europe, and the United States. The program committee accepted 12 papers that cover a variety of topics, including social media analysis on social networks, social media tagging, event detection and summarization from social media, and emerging applications with social media. In addition, the program includes a keynote speech by Ramesh Jain on "Influence of Multimedia in Emerging Social Web Systems", and a panel discussion on "Emerging Challenges in Social Media Research". We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for social media researchers and developers.
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Influence of multimedia in emerging social web systems
Even a casual look at most successful social systems on the Web shows that multimedia has played a key role in their success. The factors behind this are not really clear. Academic community has adopted multimedia oriented sites for procuring correct ...
Tweet the debates: understanding community annotation of uncollected sources
We investigate the practice of sharing short messages (microblogging) around live media events. Our focus is on Twitter and its usage during the 2008 Presidential Debates. We find that analysis of Twitter usage patterns around this media event can yield ...
Motivating contributors in social media networks
Despite recent advancements in user-driven social media platforms, tools for studying user behavior patterns and motivations remain primitive. We highlight the voluntary nature of user contributions and that users can choose when (and when not) to ...
Image tag clarity: in search of visual-representative tags for social images
Tags associated with images in various social media sharing web sites are valuable information source for superior image retrieval experiences. Due to the nature of tagging, many tags associated with images are not visually descriptive. In this paper, ...
From usage to annotation: analysis of personal photo albums for semantic photo understanding
With photo albums we aim to capture personal events such as weddings, vacations, and parties of family and friends. By arranging photo prints, captions and paper souvenirs such as tickets over the pages of a photo book we tell a story to capture and ...
Effective semantic classification of consumer events for automatic content management
We study semantic event classification in the consumer domain by incorporating cross-domain and within-domain learning. An event is defined as a set of photos and/or videos that are taken within a common period of time, and have similar visual ...
Event driven summarization for web videos
The explosive growth of web videos brings out the challenge of how to efficiently browse hundreds or even thousands of videos at a glance. Given an event-driven query, social media web sites can easily return a ranked list of large but diverse and ...
Accelerating YouTube with video correlation
In this paper, using long-term data traces, we present an in-depth measurement study on the characteristics of YouTube, the most successful site providing a new generation of short video sharing service. We find that YouTube videos have noticeable ...
Multimodal video copy detection applied to social media
Reliable content-based copy detection algorithms (CBCD) are at the core of effective multimedia data management and copyright enforcement systems. CBCD techniques focus on detecting videos that are identical to or transformed versions of an original ...
The role of tags and image aesthetics in social image search
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of consumer digital photographs taken and stored in both personal and online repositories. As the amount of user-generated digital photos increases, there is a growing need for efficient ways to search for ...
Social reader: following social networks in the wilds of the blogosphere
The social interactions manifest in blogs by the network of comments left by owners and readers are an under-used resource, both for blog pundits and industry. We present a web-based feed reader that renders these relationships with a graph ...
Implicit emotional tagging of multimedia using EEG signals and brain computer interface
In multimedia content sharing social networks, tags assigned to content play an important role in search and retrieval. In other words, by annotating multimedia content, users can associate a word or a phrase (tag) with that resource such that it can be ...
VisuaPedia: a social media based visual encyclopedia
- Neha Tripathi,
- Hock Soon Seah,
- Steven John Zuiker,
- Margaret Tan,
- Heather Kvill,
- Tomas Yuen Ka Ho,
- Chang Ke Xin,
- Yixiang Lu,
- Yuefeng Li
The ongoing evolution of Web 2.0 means that online applications not only attempt to catch the public eye but also vie to engage individuals and user communities through increasingly interactive mediums of communication, entertainment, socialization, and ...
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