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K-Pop Live: Social Networking & Language Learning Platform, Thomas Chua, Chin Leng Ong, Kian Ming Png, Aloysius Lau, Houston Toh, Feida Zhu, Kyong Jin Shim, Ee-Peng Lim Feb 2013

K-Pop Live: Social Networking & Language Learning Platform, Thomas Chua, Chin Leng Ong, Kian Ming Png, Aloysius Lau, Houston Toh, Feida Zhu, Kyong Jin Shim, Ee-Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

K-Pop live is a social networking and language learning platform developed by an undergraduate student team from Singapore Management University. K-Pop live aims to combine social media together with gamification to promote Korean culture. It consolidates all relevant Tweets from Twitter as well as videos from YouTube. The platform allows the user to connect with his friends who share similar interests in terms of K-pop artists and music.


Impact Of Multimedia In Sina Weibo, Xun Zhao Jan 2013

Impact Of Multimedia In Sina Weibo, Xun Zhao

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Multimedia contents such as images and videos are widely used in social network sites nowadays. Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service, is one of the first microblog platforms to incorporate multimedia content sharing features. This thesis provides statistical analysis on how multimedia contents are produced, consumed, and propagated in Sina Weibo. Based on 230 million tweets and 1.8 million user profiles in Sina Weibo, we study the impact of multimedia contents on the popularity of both users and tweets as well as tweet life span. In addition to consider the multimedia impact on popularity, we also compare the user influence …