Social Networking and Mobility: A Data Management Perspective

In the first part, we start by giving a quick overview of social networking services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter), their evolution, and how they impact the society. Similarly, we explain, through examples and case studies, how the widespread of mobile devices changed the computing paradigm in a way that impacted our daily life. In the second part, we present state-of-the-art research that lies within the intersection of both social networking and mobility, from the following perspectives: 1) geosocial queries; 2) geosocial recommendation; 3) geosocial analytics; 4) geosocial visualization; and 5) geosocial crowdsourcing.