Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications
Social networking is a concept that has existed for a long time; however, with the explosion of the Internet, social networking has become a tool for people to connect and communicate in ways that were impossible in the past. The recent development of Web
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Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications
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Editor Borko Furht Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Comp. & Elect. Engin. and Comp. Sci. Glades Road 777 33431 Boca Raton Florida USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-7141-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7142-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7142-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Preface
Social networking is a concept that has been around for a long time; however, with the explosion of the Internet, social networking has become a tool for connecting people and allowing their communications in the ways that was previously impossible. Furthermore, the recent development of Web 2.0 has provided for many new applications such as Myspace, Facebook, Linkedin, and many others. The objective of this Handbook is to provide comprehensive guidelines on the current and future trends in social network technologies and applications. This Handbook is a carefully edited book – contributors are 82 worldwide experts in the field of social networks and their applications. The Handbook Advisory Board, comprised of 11 researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, helped in reshaping the Handbook and selecting the right topics and creative and knowledgeable contributors. The scope of the book includes leading edge social network technologies, infrastructures, and communities; social media analysis, organizations, mining, and search; privacy and security issues in social networks; and visualization and applications of social networks. The Handbook comprises of five parts, which consist of 31 chapters. The first part on Social Media Analysis and Organization includes chapters dealing with structure and dynamics of social networks, qualitative analysis of commercial social networks, and various topics relating to analysis and organization of social media. The second part on Social Media Mining and Search focuses on chapters on detecting and discovering communities in social networks, and mining information from social networks and related topics in social media mining and search. The third part on Social Network
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