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Happy New Year!

Due to many requests, the paper submission deadline for the 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (Toronto, Canada, July 28-30) has been extended. Both work-in-progress (WiP) and full papers are now due January 31^st, 2017.

The organizing committee invites scholarly and original submissions that relate to the broad theme of Social Media & Society. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research.

IMPORTANT DATES

· Full and Work-in-Progress (WIP) Papers - Due January 31, 2017 (extended!)

· Posters and Panels - Due March 6, 2017

· Conference Dates - July 28-30, 2017

Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will also be invited to submit their extended conference papers to a special issue of the Social Media + Society journal (http://sms.sagepub.com/) published by SAGE.

For more information, please see CfP at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016/cfp-2017-international-conference-social-media-society/ or visit the Submission Page at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/

ORGANIZATION:

· 2017 #SMSociety Organizing Committee:

· Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair

· Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada – Conference Chair

· Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair

· Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA – Poster Chair

· Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, UK – WIP Chair

· Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA – WIP Chair

· Advisory Board:

· William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA

· Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

· Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network, Canada

· Programme Committee:

o Visit: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/

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