Leveraging Social Context for Searching Social Media

• Main Authors: SMITH, Marc, BARASH, Vladimir, GETOOR, Lise, LAUW, Hady W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: social media; social search; social context; Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1554; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2553/viewcontent/ssm08.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The ability to utilize and benefit from today's explosion of social media sites depends on providing tools that allow users to productively participate. In order to participate, users must be able to find resources (both people and information) that they find valuable. Here, we argue that in or...