YouTube has evolved to a global platform for formal and informal education. In contrast to
traditional sources of learning multimedia, YouTube is a social platform with numerous …

The deluge of digital information in our daily life—from user-generated content, such as
microblogs and scientific papers, to online business, such as viral marketing and advertising …

As the reach of science content in traditional media declines, many institutions and scientists
are turning to YouTube as a powerful tool for communicating directly with non-expert …

Software popularity is a valuable information to modern open source developers, who
constantly want to know if their systems are attracting new users, if new releases are gaining …

YouTube has become one of the largest websites on the Internet. Among its many genres,
both professional and amateur science communicators compete for audience attention. This …

To this date, it is difficult to find high-level statistics on YouTube that paint a fair picture of the
platform in its entirety. This study attempts to provide an overall characterization of YouTube …

Predicting Web content popularity is an important task for supporting the design and
evaluation of a wide range of systems, from targeted advertising to effective search and …

Hundreds of thousands of photographs are uploaded to the internet every minute through
various social networking and photo sharing platforms. While some images get millions of …

In addition to hosting user-generated video content, YouTube provides recommendation
services, where sets of related and recommended videos are presented to users, based on …

Micro-blogging systems such as Twitter expose digital traces of social discourse with an
unprecedented degree of resolution of individual behaviors. They offer an opportunity to …