Social Media Mining and Social Network Analysis: Emerging Research

Drawn in part from a recent workshop on social network analysis and social media mining, these papers cover both algorithms and the growing number of applications in the world of Web 2.0. The volume is edited by Xu (advanced analytics, U. of Technology, Sydney) and Li (computer science and technology, Wuhan U.), and has an international range of contributors.

Social media mining and social network analysis is a hot research area, and the 14 chapters of this book provide a good interdisciplinary overview of the field.

The book is of excellent quality and overall is well written. It can be recommended as a good introduction for a broad audience to gain insight into some challenging topics in social computing.