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Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.

by Manuel Castells , Anthony Giddens , Alain Touraine , Anthony Smith , Benjamin Barber , Peter Hall , Roger-Pol Droit , Sophie Watson , Frank Webster , Krishan Kumar , David Lyon , Craig Calhoun , Jeffrey Henderson , Ramon Ramos , Jose E Rodrigues-Ibanez , Jose F Tezanos , Mary Kaldor , Stephen Jones , Christopher Freeman - The British Journal of Sociology , 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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; social theory; social morphology INTRODUCTION The network society is a speci c form of social structure tentatively identied by empirical research as being characteristic of the Information Age. By social structure I understand the organizational arrangements of humans in relationships of production

Proceedings of the Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Local Networks, Local Topics: Structural and Semantic Proximity in Blogspace ∗

by Camille Roth
"... Blog networks are often described as “small world” social networks where links are primarily created towards similar-minded individuals and well-connected bloggers. Examining a portion of the US blogosphere on several months, we find that bloggers relate to each other in a relatively local fashion, ..."
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interactions — thereby challenging the conjecture of a widespread balkanization of Internet communities. We shed further light on this issue by describing the dual evolution of social and semantic proximity before and after two individuals interact with each other. We discuss in particular whether interactions

Friendship prediction and homophily in social media

by Luca Maria Aiello, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Benjamin Markines, Filippo Menczer - ACM Transactions on the Web
"... Web 2.0 applications have attracted considerable attention because their open-ended nature allows users to create lightweight semantic scaffolding to organize and share content. To date, the interplay of the social and topical components of social media has been only partially explored. Here we stud ..."
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Web 2.0 applications have attracted considerable attention because their open-ended nature allows users to create lightweight semantic scaffolding to organize and share content. To date, the interplay of the social and topical components of social media has been only partially explored. Here we

Chapter 2 MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION NETWORKS IN SOCIAL MEDIA

by Liangliang Cao, Guojun Qi, Shen-fu Tsai, Min-hsuan Tsai, Andrey Del Pozo, Thomas S. Huang, Xuemei Zhang, Suk Hwan Lim
"... Abstract The popularity of personal digital cameras and online photo/video sharing com-munity has lead to an explosion of multimedia information. Unlike traditional multimedia data, many new multimedia datasets are organized in a structural way, incorporating rich information such as semantic ontolo ..."
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networks, but especially focus on understanding the topics and semantics of the multimedia files in the context of network structure. This chapter reviews different categories of recent MINet systems, summarizes the popular inference methods used in recent works, and discusses the applications related

Social Network and Data Portability using Semantic Web Technologies

by Uldis Bojārs, Re Passant, Johng. Breslin
"... Abstract. Social network and data portability has recently gained a lot of interest as one of the issues for social media sites on the Web. In this paper, we will show how Semantic Web technologies and especially the FOAF and SIOC vocabularies can be used to model user information and user-generated ..."
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Abstract. Social network and data portability has recently gained a lot of interest as one of the issues for social media sites on the Web. In this paper, we will show how Semantic Web technologies and especially the FOAF and SIOC vocabularies can be used to model user information and user

New Media/Internet Research Topics of the Association of Internet Researchers

by Ronald E. Rice, Address Ronald, E. Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Pro - The Information Society , 2005
"... This study summarizes prior reviews of new media and Inter-net research, and the growth of the term Internet in academic pub-lications and online newsgroups. It then uses semantic network analysis to summarize the interests and concepts of an interdisci-plinary group of Internet researchers, as repr ..."
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This study summarizes prior reviews of new media and Inter-net research, and the growth of the term Internet in academic pub-lications and online newsgroups. It then uses semantic network analysis to summarize the interests and concepts of an interdisci-plinary group of Internet researchers

Porting social media contributions with SIOC

by Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker
"... Abstract. Social media sites, including social networking sites, have captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition. To better enable a user’s access to multiple sites, portability between social media sites is required in terms of both (1) ..."
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the application of Semantic Web technology to enhance current social media sites with semantics and to address issues with portability between social media sites. It has been shown that social media sites can serve as rich data sources for SIOC-based applications such as the SIOC Browser, but in the other

Clustering memes in social media streams

by Mohsen Jafariasbagh, Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Alessandro Flammini
"... The problem of clustering content in social media has pervasive appli-cations, including the identification of discussion topics, event detection, and content recommendation. Here we describe a streaming framework for online detection and clustering of memes in social media, specifically Twitter. A ..."
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The problem of clustering content in social media has pervasive appli-cations, including the identification of discussion topics, event detection, and content recommendation. Here we describe a streaming framework for online detection and clustering of memes in social media, specifically Twitter. A

Folks in Folksonomies: Social Link Prediction from Shared Metadata

by Rossano Schifanella, Alain Barrat
"... Web 2.0 applications have attracted a considerable amount of attention because their open-ended nature allows users to create lightweight semantic scaffolding to organize and share content. To date, the interplay of the social and semantic components of social media has been only partially explored. ..."
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Web 2.0 applications have attracted a considerable amount of attention because their open-ended nature allows users to create lightweight semantic scaffolding to organize and share content. To date, the interplay of the social and semantic components of social media has been only partially explored

A Survey of the Semantic Specification of Sensors

by Core Scholar, Michael Compton, Cory Andrew Henson, Laurent Lefort, Holger Neuhaus, Amit P. Sheth, Michael Compton, Cory Henson, Laurent Lefort, Holger Neuhaus, Amit Sheth
"... Abstract. Semantic sensor networks use declarative descriptions of sen-sors promote reuse and integration, and to help solve the difficulties of installing, querying and maintaining complex, heterogeneous sensor net-works. This paper reviews the state of the art for the semantic specifi-cation of se ..."
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Abstract. Semantic sensor networks use declarative descriptions of sen-sors promote reuse and integration, and to help solve the difficulties of installing, querying and maintaining complex, heterogeneous sensor net-works. This paper reviews the state of the art for the semantic specifi-cation
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