Geoinformatics and Social Media New Big Data Challenge
Fostered by Web 2.0, ubiquitous computing, and corresponding technological advancements, social media have become massively popular during the last decade. The term social media refers to a wide spectrum of digital interaction and information exchange platforms. Broadly, this includes blogs and micr...
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Published in | Big Data Vol. 1; pp. 162 - 182 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
Published |
United States
CRC Press
2025
Taylor & Francis Group |
Edition | 2 |
Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Fostered by Web 2.0, ubiquitous computing, and corresponding technological advancements, social media have become massively popular during the last decade. The term social media refers to a wide spectrum of digital interaction and information exchange platforms. Broadly, this includes blogs and microblogs (e.g., Blogger, WordPress, Twitter, Tumblr, and Weibo), social networking services (e.g., Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn), and multimedia content-sharing services (e.g., Flickr and YouTube). Regardless of the particularities of each one, these social media services share the common goal of enabling the general public to contribute, disseminate, and exchange information (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010). And this is exactly what the general public does, making social media content a sizeable and rapidly increasing chunk of the digital universe. Facebook announced in 2012 that its system deals with petabyte-scale data (InfoQ, 2012) as it processes 2.5 billion content elements and over 500 TB of data daily (TechCrunch, 2012). |
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ISBN: | 1032525169 1032525142 9781032525167 9781032525143 |
DOI: | 10.1201/9781003406969-11 |