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Planning a project
by Gerard Meijssen 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hoi, One of the area's where Wikipedia is not performing optimally is in the area of mental health. I am working towards an editathon on the subject. The aim is to consider information in multiple languages not only Dutch. What I am looking for is how we can measure the impact it has on traffic. After all I am interested in the whole of the subject not only in the articles that are updated or written. My problem is in two: what is the best way of identifying a subject as broad as mental health and is it possible to get historic information on traffic? Thanks, GerardM PS I am working on Wikidata on the subject.

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Community policing, New Page Patrol, Articles for Creation, and editor retention
by Pine W 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Yesterday I gave a presentation about community policing at the Cascadia Wikimedians' end of year event with Seattle TA3M [1][2][3]. An issue that came up for discussion is the extent to which, on English Wikipedia, experienced Wikipedians conducting New Page Patrol create collateral damage during their well-intentioned efforts to protect Wikipedia. Another subject that came up is the need for more human resources for mentoring of newbies who create articles using the Articles for Creation system [4]; one comment I've heard previously is that the length of time between submission and review may be long enough for the newbie to give up and disappear, and another comment that I've heard is that newbies may not understand the instructions that they're given when their article is reviewed. These comments correlate with the community SWOT analysis that was done at WikiConference USA this year, in which "biting the newbies", NPP, and "onboarding/training" were identified as weaknesses [5] Personally, I would like the interaction of experienced editors with the newbies in places like NPP and AFC to look more like this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Police_Week_May_15,_2010_on_Court_Avenue…> and less like this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ferguson_Day_6,_Picture_44.png>. Granted, it's hard for a relatively small number of experienced Wikipedians to keep all the junk and vandals out while also mentoring the newbies and avoiding collateral damage, so one strategy could be to increase the quantity of skilled human resources that are devoted to these domains. Any thoughts on how to make that happen? I am currently especially interested in this topic because of my IEG project which officially starts this week. [6] It would be very helpful to retain the new editors that are trained through these videos, so improving editor retention via improved newbie experiences at NPP and/or AFC would be most welcome. Pine [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_policing [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_reform_in_the_United_States [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presentations_at_Cascadia_Wikimedia… [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SWOT_analysis_of_Wikipedia_in_2015.… [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…

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Yahoo’s data set
by Andrew Lih 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

There might be something Wikipedia-related in this data set, so just in case, I thought the group might find this Yahoo Labs announcement interesting: http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/137281912191/yahoo-releases-the-largest-ev… "Today, we are proud to announce the public release of the largest-ever machine learning dataset to the research community. The dataset stands at a massive ~110B events (13.5TB uncompressed) of anonymized user-news item interaction data, collected by recording the user-news item interactions of about 20M users from February 2015 to May 2015.”

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International Visiting Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Research
by Christian Fuchs 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Call for Applications: International Visiting Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Research The Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) www.westminster.ac.uk/wias is a newly created academic space at the University of Westminster in London for independent critical thinking beyond borders. Its inaugural research theme is Critical Digital & Social Media Research. One of the WIAS’ key features is the Research Fellowship Programme that attracts and brings together current and future academic leaders. We invite applications for international junior and senior research fellows (from all academic backgrounds) who conduct fellowship research projects in the realm of Critical Social & Digital Media Research for the duration of 3 months in 2016. Several fellowships will be awarded as result of this call. The fellowships cover airfare and a contribution to accomodation and subsistence in London. Funded scholarships are only awarded as a result of open calls. The WIAS invites both junior and senior fellows. Junior fellows are researchers who hold a PhD that has been awarded not more than 5 years before the date of the call publication. Senior fellows are researchers who hold a PhD that has been awarded more than 5 years before the call is published. More details and application: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/2016/call-for-applications-international… Application deadline: February 29, 2016, 17:00 BST Subscription to the WIAS newsletter in order to receive updates about events, future fellowship calls, calls of the book series "Critical Digital & Social Media Studies", publications, etc. is possible here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter

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Upcoming research newsletter (January 2016): new papers open for review
by masssly＠ymail.com 23 Jan '16

23 Jan '16

Hi everybody, We’re preparing for the January 2016 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201601 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Wednesday January 27 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Highlights from this month: 50/50 Norm in Massive Online Public Good: The Case of Wikipedia Advances in Network Science| chapter = Studying the Role of Diversity in Open Collaboration Network: Experiments on Wikipedia An AI for the Wikipedia Game Analyzing the Usage of Wikipedia on Twitter: Understanding Inter-Language Links Anon productivity and productive efficiency in English Wikipedia (Showcase, Jan. 2016) Common knowledge? An ethnography of Wikipedia Das Ende klassischer Printmedien? Ein Vergleich soziologischer Einführungswerke und Lexika mit der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia aus studentischer Perspektive From Digital Library Citation Parsing to Wikipedia Reference Analysis Hidden revolution of human priorities: An analysis of biographical data from Wikipedia Identifying missing dictionary entries with frequency-conserving context models Intellectual interchanges in the history of the massive online open-editing encyclopedia, Wikipedia Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide On the origin of burstiness in human behavior: The wikipedia edits case Political Advertising on the Wikipedia Market Place of Information Population automation: An interview with Wikipedia bot pioneer Ram-Man Prediction of influenza outbreaks by integrating Wikipedia article access logs and Google flu trend data Public relations interactions with Wikipedia Quantifying the Relationship between Hit Count Estimates and Wikipedia Article Traffic Relevance Analyses and Automatic Categorization of Wikipedia Articles The Detection of Emerging Trends Using Wikipedia Traffic Data and Context Networks The Evolution of Wikipedia's Norm Network The Impact of Sentiment-driven Feedback on Knowledge Reuse in Online Communities The Impact of Sentiment-driven Feedback on Knowledge Reuse in Online Communities Verifying social network models of Wikipedia knowledge community Vier von fünf Internetnutzern recherchieren bei Wikipedia Where are the Women in Wikipedia? Understanding the Different Psychological Experiences of Men and Women in Wikipedia Wikiometrics: A Wikipedia Based Ranking System Wikipedia: Access and participation in an open encyclopaedia Women Through the Glass-Ceiling: Gender Asymmetries in Wikipedia If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter

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Fwd: Office hour regarding "Motivational and educational video to introduce Wikimedia"
by Pine W 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Cross-posting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:03 PM Subject: Office hour regarding "Motivational and educational video to introduce Wikimedia" Hi all, I will have an office hour regarding the development of the Motivational and educational video to introduce Wikimedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…> project. I would appreciate your comments and questions about: * The outline of the subjects that will be included in the videos * Good practices for onboarding newcomers that may be leveraged in the video series * What to name the video series when it is released to the general public * Translation of the public communications related to the videos, and translation of the script * Anything else related to the series Please participate in a Doodle poll to help with scheduling the office hour: http://doodle.com/poll/eu4m62ccdq4senuv I also welcome questions and comments on the project talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Motivational_and_educationa…> . Thank you! Pine

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Parsing editor's each revision contents from wiki XML dumps
by Bowen Yu 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Hello all, I am a 2nd PhD student working in Grouplens Research group at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Recently, I am working on a project to study how identity based and bond based theories would help understand editor's behavior in WikiProjects within the group context, but I am having a technical problems that need help and advise. I am trying to parse each revision content of the editors from the XML dumps - the contents they added or deleted in each revision. I used the compare function in difflib to obtain the added or deleted contents by comparing two string objects, which runs extremely slow when the strings are huge specifically in the case of the Wikipedia revision contents. Without any parallel processing techniques, the expecting runtime to download and parse the 201 dumps would be ~100+ days.. I was pointed to altiscale, but not yet sure exactly how to use it for my problem. It would be really great if anyone would give me some suggestion to help me make more progress. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Bowen

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January 2016 Research Showcase
by Sarah Rodlund 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 11:30 (PST). YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpUby3MoqU As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Archive>. We look forward to seeing you! Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Project Coordinator-Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation srodlund(a)wikimedia.org This month: *Anon productivity and productive efficiency in English Wikipedia* By Aaron Halfaker Building from a call to action around measuring value-adding behavior in Wikipedia from Wikimania 2014, I'll show preliminary results of measuring editor productivity in English Wikipedia. From this analysis some surprising results have emerged: (1) IP editors contribute about 20% of good new content to Wikipedia articles, (2) the overall productivity of registered editors has been holding constant since 2007 -- despite declines in the community and labor hours invested in editing. (1) suggests that we should consider better supporting editing without an account and (2) suggests that Wikipedians are somehow contributing more efficiently than they used to. *Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy, Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia* By Jérôme Hergueux <http://www.lawecon.ethz.ch/people/hergueux.html> Relying on the behavior of Wikipedia contributors in a (game-theoretic) social experiment, I will seek to engage the community in a reflection about ways to create a more inclusive Wikipedia. First, I will identify the underlying demographic and social determinants of anti-social behavior within Wikipedia -- an often cited driver of its declining retention rates. Second, I will study the relationship between Wikipedia administrators' trust in anonymous strangers and their policing activity patterns, asking the question of the optimal level of trust that admins should exhibit in order to efficiently protect Wikipedia from malicious users while avoiding to drive well-intentioned ones away from the project.

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SEMANTiCS 2016, Leipzig, Sep 12-15, Call for Research & Innovation Papers
by Sebastian Hellmann 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Apologies for cross-posting <mailbox:///home/julia/.thunderbird/0xgpsb48.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Trash?number=18993455&part=1.2.2&filename=486eca59914e673f7b637acad4ef4466efdf01db><mailbox:///home/julia/.thunderbird/0xgpsb48.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Trash?number=18993455&part=1.2.2&filename=486eca59914e673f7b637acad4ef4466efdf01db> Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference Transfer // Engineering // Community 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany September 12 -15, 2016 http://2016.semantics.cc <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://2016.semantics.cc/&sa=D&ust=14531132570…> Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 14, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: April 21, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance:May 26, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: June 16, 2016(11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submissions via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf%3Dsema…> As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS’16 proceedings are expected to be published by ACM ICP. The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary management. The success of last year’s conference in Vienna with more than 280 attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2016 will continue a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world. There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic software systems. The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe. SEMANTiCS 2016 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: * Data Quality Management * Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics) * Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org * Corporate Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies * Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ‘horizontals’ (research) and ‘verticals’ (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals * Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration * Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search * Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies * Big Data & Text Analytics * Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization * Semantic Information Management * Document Management & Content Management * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking * Smart Data & Semantics in IoT * Semantics for IT Safety & Security * Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing * Community, Social & Societal Aspects Verticals * Industry & Engineering * Life Sciences & Health Care * Public Administration * Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) * Education & eLearning * Media & Data Journalism * Publishing, Marketing & Advertising * Tourism & Recreation * Financial & Insurance Industry * Telecommunication & Mobile Services * Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology * Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids * Food, Agriculture & Farming * Safety & Security * Transport, Environment & Geospatial Research / Innovation Papers The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS is a single-blind review process (author names are visible to reviewers, reviewers stay anonymous). The submitted abstract and the topics are leveraged to find adequate reviewers for submitted papers. Please write an email to semantics2016researchtrack(a)easychair.org <mailto:semantics2016researchtrack@easychair.org>, if you have any questions. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting and must not exceed 8 pages in length for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. The layout templates can be found here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedin…>All accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf%3Dsema…>. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the source files (Latex, WordPerfect, Word) will also be needed. Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 14, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: April 21, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance:May 26, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: June 16, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Research and Innovation Chairs: * Anna Fensel <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.anna.fensel.com/&sa=D&ust=145311325…>, University of Innsbruck * Amrapali Zaveri <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://dumontierlab.stanford.edu/&sa=D&ust=145…>, Stanford University Contact email address:semantics2016researchtrack@easychair.org <mailto:semantics2016researchtrack@easychair.org> Research and Innovation Deputy Chairs: * Bernhard Haslhofer <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bernhardhaslhofer.info/&sa=D&ust=145311…>, Austrian Institute of Technology * Artem Revenko <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-revenko-1831…>, Semantic Web Company Conference Chairs: * Sebastian Hellmann <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann.html&sa=D&us…>, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Tassilo Pellegrini <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tassilo_Pellegri…>, UAS St. Pölten Senior Program Committee: * Paul Buitelaar, Insight - National University of Ireland, Galway * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid * Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari * Brian Davis, DERI NUIG * Victor de Boer, VU Amsterdam * Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany * Michel Dumontier, Stanford University * Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics * Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo * Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig * Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG Österreich * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim * Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten * Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Technology * Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam * Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds * Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science Program Committee: * Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University * Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute * Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext Corp * Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid * Stefan Bischof, Siemens AG Österreich * Volha Bryl, Springer Nature * Irene Celino, CEFRIEL * Pierre-Antoine, Champin LIRIS * Roland Cornelissen, Metamatter * Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton * Roberta Cuel, University of Trento * Aba-Sah Dadzie, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University * Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center * Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari * Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext * Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST * Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University * Ingo Feinerer, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt * Javier D. Fernández, Computer Science Department. University of Valladolid * Fabien Gandon, Inria * Jorge Garcia, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid * Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida * José María García, University of Seville * Alain Giboin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée * Juan Miguel Gómez-Berbís, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid * Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Expert System * Michael Granitzer, University of Passau * Benjamin Heitmann, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway * Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center * Laura Hollink, CWI * Katja Hose, Aalborg University * Valentina Janev, Mihailo Pupin Institute, University of Belgrade * Anja Jentzsch, Hasso Plattner Institut * Ali Khalili, VU University Amsterdam * Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien * Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig * Christoph Lange, University of Bonn * Nelia Lasierra Beamonte, UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology * Isaac Lera, University of the Balearic Islands * Steffen Lohmann, Fraunhofer IAIS * Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research * Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and informatics Varazdin * Markus Luczak-Roesch, University of Southampton * Elisa Marengo, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * John P. Mccrae, National University of Ireland, Galway * Andras Micsik, SZTAKI * Andrea Moro Sapienza, Università di Roma * Dmitry Mouromtsev, NRU ITMO, Russia * Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin * Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University * Inna Novalija, Jozef Stefan Institute * Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR * Leo Obrst, MITRE * Maryam Panahiazar, Stanford University * Alexander Panchenko, Université catholique de Louvain * Viviana Patti, University of Turin * Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna * Xiuquan Qiao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications * Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid * Giuseppe Rizzo, ISMB * Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Anisa Rula, University of Milano-Bicocca * Felix Sasaki, W3C * Vadim Savenkov, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) * Francois Scharffe, 3Top * Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler * Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina * Nadine Steinmetz, TU Ilmenau * Holger Stenzhorn, Saarland University Hospital * Simon Steyskal, Siemens AG Austria * Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague * Konstantin Todorov, LIRMM * Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck * Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU) * Joerg Waitelonis, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam * Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics * Eva Zangerle, Databases and Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck

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CFP: Social Media in the Newsroom workshop at ICWSM-16
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

======================================================= Social Media in the Newsroom (SMnews 2016), workshop co-located with ICWSM 2016http://www.smnews.newslab.ie/ 17th May, 2016 - Cologne, Germany ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- The exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in capturing and announcing breaking news events more rapidly than traditional media, has changed the journalistic landscape: social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media as a form of direct reportage. This brings along new opportunities for newsrooms and journalists by providing new means for newsgathering through access to a wealth of citizen reportage and updates about current affairs, as well as an additional showcase for news dissemination. This workshop aims to focus on the intersection of social media and journalism, as a subset of Computational and Data Journalism. It will particularly focus on the development of novel algorithms, methods, and tools, and to further understand and to make the most of social media content for the purposes of news and media industries and journalism practitioners. Topics of Interest ------------------ This workshop aims to bring together practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production, information science, data science and computer science, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research in the broad area of Data and Computational journalism, with specific focus on social media data for news production and reporting. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Newsgathering from social media * Social Event Detection * Social media content curation * Social media analytics for news * Verification of source and content * Detection of eyewitnesses and experts * Ethical issues concerning social media newsgathering and eyewitness media * Credibility assessment * Provenance * Analysis of social news and online news from traditional media * Fact-checking * Citizen journalism * Data Driven journalism * Computational Journalism * Robot journalism * Algorithmic accountability * Approaches to boost reputation of journalists in social media * Diffusion of news stories in social media * Social media news audiences and network gatekeeping * Social media and censorship * Visualisation of news and social media Important Dates --------------- * 27th February, 2016: Paper submission deadline. * 11th March, 2016: Notification to authors. * 17th March, 2016: Camera-ready papers due. * 17th May, 2016: Workshop day. Paper Submission ---------------- Two types of submissions will be accepted: full papers that present advanced work (5-8 pages), and short papers that present work in progress (up to 4 pages). Submissions will be assessed through peer review, with each submission being reviewed by at least three committee members. Papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5″ x 11″) paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Submission must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Submissions will be made through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smnews2016 Organising Committee -------------------- * Bahareh R. Heravi, NUI Galway, Ireland * Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Programme Committee ------------------- * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Labs, UK * Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany * Stefano Ceccon, The Times and The Sunday Times, UK * Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aalto University, Finland * Nicholas Diakopoulos, University of Maryland, USA * George Gkotsis, King’s College London, UK * Phil Hahn, CTV News, Canada * Ulrika Hedman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Hongzhao Huang, Facebook, USA * David Laniado, Eurecat, Spain * Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Signal Media Ltd., UK * Donn Morrison, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Anika Oellrich, King’s College London, UK * Symeon Papadopoulos, ITI-CERTH, Greece * Gavin Sheridan, VizLegal (former Storyful), Ireland * Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Australia * Thomas Steiner, Google, Germany * Jane Suiter, Dublin City University, Ireland * Laura Tolosi-Halacheva, Ontotext, Bulgaria * Pablo Torres, NUI Galway, Ireland * Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria * Sumithra Velupillai, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and King’s College London, UK

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