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Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE C

ISSN 1869-1951(Print), 1869-196x(Online), Monthly

2012 Vol.13 No.12 P.875-880

Societally connected multimedia across cultures

Zhongfei Zhang, Zhengyou Zhang, Ramesh Jain, Yueting Zhuang, Noshir CONTRACTOR, Alexander G. HAUPTMANN, Alejandro (Alex) JAIMES, Wanqing LI, Alexander C. LOUI, Tao MEI, Nicu SEBE, Yonghong TIAN, Vincent S. TSENG, Qing WANG, Changsheng XU, Huimin YU, Shiwen YU

Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; School of Communication, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Informedia Group, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA; Yahoo! Research, Spain; School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia; Kodak Research Labs, USA; Microsoft Research Asia, China; Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy; Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Institute of Computer Science and Information, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 701, Tainan; School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China; Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China

zhongfei@zju.edu.cn

Abstract: The advance of the Internet in the past decade has radically changed the way people communicate and collaborate with each other. Physical distance is no more a barrier in online social networks, but cultural differences (at the individual, community, as well as societal levels) still govern human-human interactions and must be considered and leveraged in the online world. The rapid deployment of high-speed Internet allows humans to interact using a rich set of multimedia data such as texts, pictures, and videos. This position paper proposes to define a new research area called ‘connected multimedia’, which is the study of a collection of research issues of the super-area social media that receive little attention in the literature. By connected multimedia, we mean the study of the social and technical interactions among users, multimedia data, and devices across cultures and explicitly exploiting the cultural differences. We justify why it is necessary to bring attention to this new research area and what benefits of this new research area may bring to the broader scientific research community and the humanity.

Key words: Connected multimedia, Social media, Social-cultural constraint


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