Meer Aali Kamal2018-02-132018-02-132016https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2676Supervised by: Dr. Adnan Abid and Uzma FarooqThe purpose of the thesis is to analyze the social media research and propose the taxonomy that defines social research direction on content based studies. This thesis is also focusing on classification of social media platform after web 2.0, that become a major contributor of content generation on social media. Moreover, these fields highly depended on the nature of data because the users on the internet are free to post any data without caring about its validity. Data is growing so fast, but data quality and structured data sacrificed. In this study, we will deeply study the undertaken research fields. The primary focus of this study is to define the taxonomy of social media information retrieval dimensions and figure out various adopted methods and evaluation parameters in recent research.enSocial media researchTaxonomy of social mediaMS ThesisThesis