<p>Social media is now ubiquitous on the internet, generating both new possibilities and new challenges in information analysis and retrieval.</p><p>This comprehensive text/reference examines in depth the synergy between multimedia content analysis, personalization, and next-generation networking. The book demonstrates how this integration can result in robust, personalized services that provide users with an improved multimedia-centric quality of experience. Each chapter offers a practical step-by-step walkthrough for a variety of concepts, components and technologies relating to the development of applications and services.</p><p><b>Topics and features:</b></p><ul><li>Provides contributions from an international and interdisciplinary selection of experts in their fields</li><li>Introduces the fundamentals of social media retrieval, presenting the most important areas of research in this domain</li><li>Examines the important topic of multimedia tagging in social environments, including geo-tagging</li><li>Discusses issues of personalization and privacy in social media</li><li>Reviews advances in encoding, compression and network architectures for the exchange of social media information</li><li>Describes a range of applications related to social media</li></ul><p>Researchers and students interested in social media retrieval will find this book a valuable resource, covering a broad overview of state-of-the-art research and emerging trends in this area. The text will also be of use to practicing engineers involved in envisioning and building innovative social media applications and services. </p>