Augmenting social media accessibility

The popularity of social media is affecting society as they are changing the way communication, collaboration, interaction, and information are produced and consumed. A part of the society (e.g., the one more technologically advanced) takes advantage of social media,whereas another part of society (e.g., old or people with different abilities) is left out from the so-called social media revolution. In this paper we propose an architecture that aims at augmenting social media accessibility. The proposed architecture, named SOMFA (SOcial Media For All), finds, gets, transforms, and enriches social media contents for a presentation over TV sets, so that people with technological, sociological, or physical limitations may enjoy social media and may participate to the social media revolution. Categories and Subject Descriptors J.4 [Social and Behavioral Science]: Sociology; K.4.2 [Computers and Society]: Assistive technologies for persons with disabilities; I.7.2 [Document and Text Proc...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: W4A
• Authors: Roberto Borrino, Marco Furini, Marco Roccetti
• Keywords: Internet Technology, So-called Social Media, Social Media, Social Media Revolution, W4A 2009