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This book explores advances in social media modeling and social media computing research, organized and presented according to current principles and practices. Coverage includes system design, analytic tools, access control for privacy and security and more.

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This timely text/reference presents the latest advances in various aspects of social media modeling and social media computing research. Gathering together superb research from a range of established international conferences and workshops, the editors coherently organize and present each of the topics in relation to the basic principles and practices of social media modeling and computing. Individual chapters can be also be used as self-contained references on the material covered. Topics and features: presents contributions from an international selection of preeminent experts in the field; discusses topics on social-media content analysis; examines social-media system design and analysis, and visual analytic tools for event analysis; investigates access control for privacy and security issues in social networks; describes emerging applications of social media, for music recommendation, automatic image annotation, and the analysis and improvement of photo-books.

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Quantifying Visual-Representativeness of Social Image Tags using Image Tag Clarity

Tag-Based Social Image Search: Towards Relevant and Diverse Results

Social Image Tag Ranking by Two-View Learning

Combining Multi-modal Features for Social Media Analysis

Multi-label Image Annotation by Structural Grouping Sparsity

Mechanism Design for Incentivizing Social Media Contributions

Efficient Access Control in Multimedia Social Networks

Call Me Guru: User Categories and Large-Scale Behavior in YouTube

Social Media Visual Analytics for Events

Using Rich Social Media Information for Music Recommendation via Hypergraph Model

Using Geotags to Derive Rich Tagclouds for Image Annotation

Social Aspects of Photobooks: Improving Photobook Authoring from Large-Scale Multimedia Analysis

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From the reviews:

"It is an appropriate resource for graduate students, software developers, and researchers. ... Each chapter is a standalone presentation with a set of references at the end. A comprehensive subject matter index combines all of the chapters, which readers will find useful. ... chapters are especially relevant for software developers and designers who want to review current research. ... each chapter is well written, and I recommend this presentation of cutting-edge work." (Brad Reid, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2011)

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