Lei Tang（唐磊） 2010年于亚利桑那州立大学获博士学位，现为雅虎实验室研究员。他的研究方向包括：社会计算、数据挖掘和社会媒体挖掘，尤其是混杂网络的关系学习、群体进化、特征抽取和影响建模以及社会媒体中的集体行为建模与预测。他是ACM和IEEE会员。 Huan Liu（刘欢） 南加州大学获博士学位，现为亚利桑那州立大学计算机科学与工程教授。他的研究方向包括：数据/网络挖掘、机器学习、社会计算、人工智能等。他是社会计算、行为建模和预测（SBP）国际会议/专题研讨会（http://sbp.asu.edu/）的发起者，同时是AAAI、ACM、ASEE和IEEE的会员。

Lei Tang（唐磊） 2010年于亚利桑那州立大学获博士学位，现为雅虎实验室研究员。他的研究方向包括：社会计算、数据挖掘和社会媒体挖掘，尤其是混杂网络的关系学习、群体进化、特征抽取和影响建模以及社会媒体中的集体行为建模与预测。他是ACM和IEEE会员。 Huan Liu（刘欢） 南加州大学获博士学位，现为亚利桑那州立大学计算机科学与工程教授。他的研究方向包括：数据/网络挖掘、机器学习、社会计算、人工智能等。他是社会计算、行为建模和预测（SBP）国际会议/专题研讨会（http://sbp.asu.edu/）的发起者，同时是AAAI、ACM、ASEE和IEEE的会员。

This book is for intermediate Python developers who want to engage with the use of public APIs to collect data from social media platforms and perform statistical analysis in order to produce useful insights from data. The book assumes a basic understanding of the Python Standard Library and provides practical examples to guide you toward the creation of your data analysis project based on social data.

China’s distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation’s vast number of internet users, but has China’s countryside been ‘left behind’ in this communication revolution? Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest t...(展开全部)

Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a...(展开全部)

Popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data. Who's talking to whom? What are they talking about? How often are they talking? Where are they located? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these types of questions and more. Each chapter presents a soup-to-nuts approach that combines popular...(展开全部)

Popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data. Who's talking to whom? What are they talking about? How often are they talking? Where are they located? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these types of questions and more. Each chapter presents a soup-to-nuts approach that combines popular...(展开全部)

This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections between Chinese language social media and disability, celebrity, sexuality, interpersonal communication, charity, diasp...(展开全部)

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinki...(展开全部)

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinki...(展开全部)