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#SMSociety15 - Social Media & Society Conference Updates:
Table of Content
1) Keynote - Dr. William H. Dutton
2) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals - Due February 2
3) Call for Submissions
4) Conference Publishing Opportunities
5) Interested in Hosting #SMSociety in 2016?
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1) Keynote - Dr. William H. Dutton
We are very excited to announce our keynote for #SMSociety15 - Dr. Bill
Dutton, the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan
State University, where he is the Director of the Quello Center! He was
the Founding Director of Oxford Internet Institute and the first
Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford.
2) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals - Due February 2
Do you work with social media data? We invite you to submit a proposal
for a half-day Workshop or Tutorial on July 27, 2015 that examines a
particular method or tool for the analysis of social media data. See
more info at
https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1483
* Workshop/tutorial hosts will receive a complimentary conference
registration.
3) Call for Submissions - Various Due Dates
We welcome various submission types: Short Papers, Work-in-Progress
Papers, Posters, and Panels. See more info at
https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1483
4) Conference Publishing Opportunities
* All accepted short papers will be published in the ACM Proceedings
http://dl.acm.org/
* Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their full
papers to a special issue of Information, Communication & Society
published by Taylor & Francis
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rics20
* Authors of accepted short and WIP papers will be invited to submit
their full papers to a special theme issue of Big Data & Society
published by SAGE (open access).
http://bds.sagepub.com/
5) Interested in Hosting #SMSociety in 2016?
If you are interested in hosting the conference in 2016, we would love
to hear from you. Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd to discuss: gruzd(a)ryerson.ca
For more information about the Social Media & Society Conference,
Programme Committee and the CfP:
https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1315
And follow us on Twitter @socmediasoc
We look forward to seeing you in Toronto,
The Conference Organizing Committee
Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University @gruzd
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto @barrywellman
Philip H. Mai, Ryerson University @phmai
Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto @jacobsonjenna