Social media

Topics

• Social media services
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
• Text analysis for social media
  • Sentiment analysis
• Social media as a social sensor
  • Prediction using social media
  • Social media and public health
• Impact of social media
  • Are social media harmful

Topical behaviors

• Dynamical Classes of Collective Attention in Twitter
• The Social Media Genome: Modeling Individual Topic-Specific Behavior in Social Media
• Inferring Who-is-Who in the Twitter Social Network
• Cognos: Crowdsourcing Search for Topic Experts in Microblogs

Social movements

• Communities, roles, and informational organigrams in directed networks: the Twitter network of the UK riots
• Probing crowd density through smartphones in city-scale mass gatherings
• The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street
• The Geospatial Characteristics of a Social Movement Communication Network
• Predicting Crowd Behavior with Big Public Data
  • Can Twitter Predict Major Events Such As Mass Protests?

Diet

• You Tweet What You Eat: Studying Food Consumption Through Twitter

Threats

• Online Social Networks: Threats and Solutions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM

Projects and initiatives

• DERP

Facts & Stats

• Social Networking Fact Sheet - Pew Research

Monitoring tools & companies

• http://www.radian6.com
• http://dataminr.com
• http://zillabyte.com
• http://www.crimsonhexagon.com/
• http://topsylabs.com/
• http://www.marketpsych.com/index.php
  • http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/06/tracking-social-media?fsrc=scn/gp/wl/bl/moodofthemarket

Fun

• http://xkcd.com/1239/ - social media
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY - Using Social Media To Cover For Lack Of Original Thought - Onion Talks

Books

• Social Media Mining
• Mining the social web

Papers

• TwitterCrowds: Techniques for Exploring Topic and Sentiment in Microblogging Data
• I See a Car Crash: Real-time Detection of Small Scale Incidents in Microblogs
• A Multi-Indicator Approach for Geolocalization of Tweets
• Is social media diversifying public agendas?
• The Secret Life of Online Moms
• Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach
• Who Will Retweet This? Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information