Exploring the wisdom of the tweets: Towards knowledge acquisition from social awareness streams

Abstract

Although one might argue that little wisdom can be conveyed in messages of 140 characters or less, this PhD research sets out to explore if and what kind of knowledge can be acquired from different aggregations of social awareness streams. The expected contribution of this research is a network-theoretic model for defining, comparing and analyzing different kinds of social awareness streams and an experimental prototype to extract semantic models from them. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.