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. Topics and features: introduces the fundamentals of social media retrieval, presenting the most important areas of research in this domain; examines the important topic of multimedia tagging in social environments, including geo-tagging; discusses issues of personalization and privacy in social media; reviews advances in encoding, compression and network architectures for the exchange of social media information; describes a range of applications related to social media.

Dr. Naeem Ramzan is a Senior Researcher at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Dr. Roelof van Zwol is Director of Product Information, Search at Netflix, USA.

Dr. Jong-Seok Lee is an Assistant Professor at Yonsei University, South Korea.

Dr. Kai Clüver is a Research Associate at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua is a Lead Researcher at Microsoft, USA.