Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
10-2008
Abstract
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 order to do this effectively, we should make use of a user's "social context". A user's social context includes both their personal social context (their friends and the communities to which they belong) and their community social context (their role and identity in different communities).
Keywords
social media, social search, social context
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Social Media
Publication
SSM '08: Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Search in Social Media: Napa Valley, CA, October 30
First Page
91
Last Page
94
ISBN
9781605582580
Identifier
10.1145/1458583.1458602
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
New York
Citation
SMITH, Marc; BARASH, Vladimir; GETOOR, Lise; and LAUW, Hady W..
Leveraging Social Context for Searching Social Media. (2008). SSM '08: Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Search in Social Media: Napa Valley, CA, October 30. 91-94.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1554
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/1458583.1458602