Multimedia Tools and Applications gratefully acknowledges the editorial work of scholars, Yue Gao, Jitao Sang, and Rongrong Ji, on this special issue devoted to Multi-Modality Analytics in Social Media.

The papers in this issue include:

  • Effectively identifying the influential spreaders in large-scale social networks by Yingjie Xia, Xiaolong Ren, Zhengchao Peng, Jianlin Zhang, Li She (10.1007/s11042-014-2256-z)

  • Social sentiment sensor: a visualization system for topic detection and topic sentiment analysis on microblog by Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Duyu Tang (10.1007/s11042-014-2184-y)

  • Elastic net regularized dictionary learning for image classification by Bin Shen, Bao-Di Liu, Qifan Wang (10.1007/s11042-014-2257-y)

  • Topical Key Concept Extraction from Folksonomy through Graph-based Ranking by Han Xue, Bing Qin, Ting Liu (10.1007/s11042-014-2303-9)

  • Towards Understanding the Gamification upon Users’ Scores in a Location-based Social Network by Lei Jin, Ke Zhang, Jianfeng Lu, Yu-Ru Lin (10.1007/s11042-014-2317-3)

  • Multi-modal microblog classification via multi-task learning by Sicheng Zhao, Hongxun Yao, Sendong Zhao, Xuesong Jiang, Xiaolei Jiang (10.1007/s11042-014-2342-2)

  • Re-ranking for Microblog Retrieval via Multiple Graph Model by Haojie Li, Yue Guan, Lijuan Liu, Fanglin Wang, Ling Wang (10.1007/s11042-014-2336-0)

  • Visual Sentiment Topic Model based Microblog Image Sentiment Analysis by Donglin Cao, Rongrong Ji, Dazhen Lin, Shaozi Li (10.1007/s11042-014-2337-z)