—We describe a semantic imitation model of social tagging that integrates formal representations of semantics and a stochastic tag choice process to explain and predict emergent ...
Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampallil, Ruogu Kang
Providers such as YouTube offer easy access to multimedia content to millions, generating high bandwidth and storage demand on the Content Delivery Networks they rely upon. More ...
Rich media social networks promote not only creation and consumption of media, but also communication about the posted media item. What causes a conversation to be interesting, th...
Anonymity is one of the main virtues of the Internet, as it protects privacy and enables users to express opinions more freely. However, anonymity hinders the assessment of the ve...
Michael Sirivianos, Kyungbaek Kim, Jian Wei Gan, X...
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...