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CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS AND RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS POSTERS
What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence
on Social Media
Where: School of Information Management, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When: September 28-29, 2012
Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12
Twitter hashtag: #Influence12
ABOUT THE EVENT:
This is a two-day symposium and workshop organized and hosted by the
Social Media Lab (http://SocialMediaLab.ca) at
Dalhousie University and supported by MITACS, SSHRC, NCE GRAND,
Dalhousie’s Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Management.
It is no secret that social media has become mainstream in recent
years, and its adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of its growing
popularity, users’ online contributions and membership in online
social networks have exploded. With a multitude of voices all
talking at once on social media, finding interesting and influential
voices among the masses can be difficult. The objective of this
2-day workshop is to bring together experts in social media and
online social networks from both the academic and business worlds,
to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact
of social media on our society, and specifically how to measure
influence on social media. The workshop will provide researchers in
this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and
provide graduate students with the opportunity to build academic and
professional contacts, present their research, and learn about
latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective.
SCHEDULE:
During the first day, the participants will present and conduct
discussions based on their work in this area. Over the second day,
the participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new
metrics for studying and measuring influence and engagement on
social media.
Industry Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research &
Development, Socialflow.com
REGISTRATION FEE: None
STUDENT TRAVEL SUBSIDIES:
A limited number of competitive travel subsidies ($500 + 3-night
shared accommodation with another student in a local hotel) will be
available to PhD and Postdoctoral students from Canadian academic
institutions. Please indicate on your submission whether you would
like to be considered for a travel subsidy.
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:
1) Position Papers: Proposals should be in the form of a position
paper (up to 1,000 words excluding references) and formatted using
the ACM Proceedings Format (a template is available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).
The position paper must be on a completed or well-developed project
relating to the main theme of the workshop. If selected, the
author(s) will be invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation
followed by a 5 min Q&A period.
2) “Work-in-progress” Posters: Posters will display visual
presentations of early-stage projects. Proposals should be in the
form of a short abstract (up to 500 words excluding references). If
selected, author(s) will have an opportunity to present their poster
as part of a dedicated poster session during the workshop.
TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE:
• Influential User Detection
• Information Visualization in Social Media
• Mobile Applications
• Online and Offline Social Networks
• Online Community Detection
• Online Identity
• Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Political Mobilization & Engagement on Social Media
• Scalability Issues and Social Media Data
• Social Media and Academia (Alternative Metrics. Learning
Analytics, etc.)
• Social Media Mining
• Social Network Analysis
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee and
evaluated based on their relevance and potential contribution to the
main theme of the workshop: How do we define and measure influence
on social media? The goal is to select and invite up to 50
researchers to participate in the workshop. Accepted and finalized
papers and posters will be published on the Social Media Lab website
after the event and promoted through various media channels. The
workshop presentations will also be streamed online.
IMPORTANT DATES:
• Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012, 23:59 (Hawaii-Aleutian
Standard Time)
• Notification Date: July 15, 2012
• Camera-Ready Deadline: August 30, 2012
• Workshop Dates: September 28-29, 2012
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* danah boyd, Microsoft Research, USA
* Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology,
Australia
* Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing
* Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada
* Andrea Forte, Drexel University, USA
* Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University, USA
* Carolyn Hank, McGill University, Canada
* Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia,
Canada
* Susan Herring, Indiana University, USA
* Bernie Hogan, University of Oxford, UK
* Karrie Karahalios, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto, Canada
* Catherine Middleton, Ryerson University, Canada
* Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Western Ontario, Canada
* Diane Rasmussen Neal, University of Western Ontario,
Canada
* Anthony Rotolo, Syracuse University, USA
* Marc Smith, Social Media Research Foundation, USA
* Louise Spiteri, Dalhousie University, Canada
* Monica Whitty, University of Leicester, UK
For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd@dal.ca