Social media are getting more and more important in the context of live events, such as fairs, exhibits, festivals, concerts, and so on, as they play an essential role in communicating them to fans, interest groups, and the general population. These kinds of events are geo-localized within a city or territory and are scheduled within a public calendar.
Together with the people in the Fashion in Process group of Politecnico di Milano, we studied the impact on social media of a specific scenario, the Milano Fashion Week (MFW), which is an important event in Milano for the whole fashion business.
We presented this work at the Location and the Web workshop co-located with the WWW 2017 Conference in Perth, Australia.
We focus our attention on the spreading of social content in space, measuring the spreading of the event propagation in space. We build different clusters of fashion brands, we characterize several features of propagation in space and we correlate them to the popularity of the brand and temporal propagation.
We show that the clusters along space, time and popularity dimensions are loosely correlated, and therefore trying to understand the dynamics of the events only based on popularity aspects would not be appropriate.
The paper PDF is available as open access PDF online on the WWW 2017 Conference web site. You can download it here.
A subsequent paper on the temporal analysis of the same event “Temporal Analysis of Social Media Response to Live Events: The Milano Fashion Week”, focusing on Granger Causality and other measures, has been published at ICWE 2017 and is available in the proceedings by Springer.
The PowerPoint presentation is available on SlideShare.
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