[ecrea] CfP Politics, Elections and Data, CIKM2012, Maui (Hawaii, USA)

More information : http://research.yahoo.com/workshops/plead2012/
Paper submission deadline : June 29, 2012
> Politics, Elections and Data
>
> What is the role of the internet in politics and during campaigns and 
what is the role of large amounts of user data in all of this?
>
> In the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign the Democrats were far more 
successful than the Republicans in utilizing online media for 
mobilization, co-ordination and fundraising. For the first time, social 
media and the Internet played a fundamental role in political campaigns. 
However, technical research in this area has been surprisingly limited 
and fragmented.
>
> The goal of this workshop, taking place right before the U.S. 
presidential elections, is to bring together researchers working at the 
intersection of social network analysis, computational social science 
and political science, to share and discuss their ideas in a common 
forum; and to inspire further developments in this growing, fascinating 
field of computational political science.
>
> The Workshop Topics
>
>     * Classifying users according to political leaning
>     * Classifying web queries and web pages according to political 
leaning
>     * Discovering political topics from search logs and social media data
>     * Describing and quantifying political campaigns and their effect 
on online media
>     * Influence of political fact checking (e.g. Politifact) on rumor 
spreading
>     * Visualizing political issues and other socio-economic controversies
>     * Applying sentiment analysis to find positive/negative aspects 
of issues
>     * Quantifying the effects of a "Daily Me" in political search and 
content
>     * Prediction markets for election prediction
>
>
> The workshop will include Filippo Menczer as a keynote speaker, a 
panel discussion with scientists and media experts, as well as 
presentations of accepted contributions. The schedule will provide time 
for both organized and open discussion.
>
> Important Dates
>
> June 29, 2012     Papers submission Deadline
> August 3, 2012     Notification of acceptance
> August 19, 2012     Camera-ready submission
> Nov 2, 2012     Workshop date (tentative)
>
> All due dates are defined in terms of times before 11:59pm, Hawaii 
time (i.e., GMT - 10 hours) of the due date.


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