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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 31st, 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 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930971&CFID=847001369&CFTOKEN=15617273&p reflayout=flat#prox 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 http://sms.sagepub.com/ Social Media + Society journal ( http://sms.sagepub.com/ http://sms.sagepub.com/) published by SAGE.

For more information, please see CfP at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016/cfp-2017-international-conference-soc ial-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:

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