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Attention Social Media Researchers! 

We are very excited to announce two distinguished Keynotes for this year’s International Conference on Social Media & Society (July 11-13, 2016, London, UK):

Dr. Susan Halford  – Professor and Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton

Dr. Helen Kennedy – Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield

SUBMIT TODAY!
Full papers and Work-in-Progress submissions are due next Friday, January 15. (To submit see http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ )

All accepted full papers (5-10 pages) will be published in the ACM Conference Proceedings (last year’s acceptance rate was 40%). In addition, all presenters will be invited to submit their extended work to two journal special issues, which will be published in 2017:

·       American Behavioral Scientist - published by SAGE

·       Big Data & Society - published by SAGE (open access)

If you have any questions, please contact us via email at ask@socialmediaandsociety.org or on Twitter at @SocMediaConf

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2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee:

  Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada

  Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada

  Dhiraj Murthy & Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK