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CALL FOR ABSTRACT
Satellite Meeting of ECCS '13
Computational Social Science: From Social Contagion to Collective Behaviour
to be held in Barcelona, 19th September 2013
Website:
http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/collectivecontagion/
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline June, 30 2013
Conference date September, 19 2013
Event Overview
Intense scientific debate is going around the definition of the
foundational concepts and appropriate methodological approaches to deal
with the understanding of social dynamics. These challenges are aiming to
understand human behavior in its complexity driven by intentional (and not
necessarily rational) decisions and influenced by a multitude of factors.
The functioning of communication-based mechanisms requires individuals to
interact in order to acquire information to cope with uncertainty and thus
deeply rely on the accuracy and on the completeness of information (if
any). In fact, people’s perceptions, knowledge, beliefs and opinions about
the world and its evolution, get (in)formed and modulated through the
information they can access. Moreover their response is not linear as
individuals can react by accepting, refusing, or elaborating (and changing)
the received information.
Technology-mediated social collectives are taking an important role in the
design of social structures. Yet our understanding of the complex
mechanisms governing networks and collective behaviour is still quite
shallow. Fundamental concepts like authority, leader-follower dynamics,
conflict or collaboration in online networks are still not well defined and
investigated – but they are crucial to illuminate the advantages and
pitfalls of this form of collective decision-making (which can cancel out
individual mistakes, but also make them spiral out of control).
The aim of this satellite is to address the question of ICT mediated social
phenomena emerging in multiple scales ranging from the interactions of
individuals to the emergence of self-organized global movements. We would
like to gather researchers from different disciplines to form a forum to
discuss ideas, research questions, recent results, and future challenges in
this emerging area of research and public interest.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Interdependent social contagion process
Peer production and mass collaboration
Temporally evolving networks and stream analytics
Cognitive aspects of belief formation and revision
Online communication and information diffusion
Viral propagation in online social network
Crowd-sourcing: herding behaviour vs. wisdom of crowds
E-democracy and online government-citizen interaction
Online socio-political mobilizations
Public attention and popularity
Questions about the conference scope should be directed to the program
co-chairs at eccs2013collectivecontagion(a)bifi.es
Submission Instructions
Submission of abstracts will be made by sending one A4 page abstract in pdf
via
EasyChair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eccs2013collective…co>.
The deadline for abstract submission is 30 June 2013.
The contributions to the event will be evaluated by the programme committee
through a peer review process that will accounts for the scientific quality
as well as for the relevance of the contribution to the aim of the
satellite.
The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified via e-mail by 15 July
2013.
Once the selection process is completed, the authors of the accepted
abstracts will be notified by e-mail.
Organising Committee
Javier Borge-Holthoefer (BIFI, University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca, Italy)
Rosaria Conte (ISTC CNR, Italy)
Sandra González-Bailón (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
Márton Karsai (Northeastern University, USA; Aalto University, Finland)
Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
Walter Quattrociocchi (Northeastern University, USA)
Luca Rossi (Northeastern University, USA)
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University, USA; ISI Foundation, Italy)
Taha Yasseri (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
Programme Committee
Javier Borge-Holthoefer (BIFI, University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Sara Brunetti (University of Siena, Italy)
Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca, Italy)
Rosaria Conte (ISTC, CNR, Italy)
Gennaro Cordasco (University of Naples, Italy)
Santo Fortunato (Aalto University, Finland)
Bruno Gonçalves (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
Sandra González-Bailón (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
Márton Karsai (Northeastern University, USA; Aalto University, Finland)
Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
Mario Paolucci (ISTC CNR, Italy)
Walter Quattrociocchi (Northeastern University, USA)
Luca Rossi (Northeastern University, USA)
Antonio Scala (ISC CNR, Italy)
Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia)
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University, USA)
Taha Yasseri (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
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