Social Media, Mining and Profiling in

Abstract

The phenomenal rise of social media services in recent years presents new opportunities and challenges to both information consumers and service providers. With its growing popularity, social media has the potential to mine actionable patterns from a large amount of data to understand user behavior and to meet users' information needs. Profiling has the potential to better describe users and their relationships in social media. This entry introduces data mining and profiling in social media and discusses the characteristics of social media data in the context of research that is being undertaken in this area.

High achievers, Schadenfreude and Gluckschmerz in New Zealanders and Chinese

“…In addition, our samples consisted of younger individuals who make a greater use of social media (Matanda et al, 2004 ). Younger cohorts may be more likely to engage with social media (Hu & Cheong, 2021 ), whereas older cohorts are likely to have more traditional values that would tend to potentiate cultural differences in attitudes towards achievement (Fung, 2013 ).…”