[ecrea] ICA Preconference: Social and Semantic Networks in Communication Research

Dear colleagues,

We have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to the ICA 
Preconference on Social and Semantic Networks to Friday January 24th. 
See below for the CfP

Apologies for any cross posting.

Christian

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Social and Semantic Networks in Communication Research

Wouter van Atteveldt, Christian Baden, Jana Diesner (alphabetic)
ICA Preconference Workshop, May 22 2014, Seattle WA

http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~jdiesner/calls/ICA2014_socsem_preconf.html
Co-Sponsored by Political Communication Division & Mass Communication 
Division

While the analysis of social networks and semantic networks has quickly 
advanced over the past years, this development is still weakly received 
in the communication sciences. Network researchers have developed a 
whole bouquet of powerful and scalable tools and approaches to the 
analysis of discourse texts and communicative interactions, and first 
inroads are being cut toward the joint analysis of social and semantic 
network data. However, these methods’ communication theoretic 
foundations, as well as their applications for addressing pressing 
questions in the field are still underdeveloped. This workshop is aimed 
to connect network analytic methodology with important developments in 
the field of communication research, such as:

    * the rising importance of networked communication patterns with 
flat hierarchies, a dedifferentiation of communicator roles, and 
self-organizing publics
    * the reconceptualization of existing communication patterns, 
social structures, institutions, and other  in society in terms of 
interaction networks
    * the rising attention to the semantic context of messages and the 
configuration of different contents and meanings exchanged in public debates
    * the beginning integration of text and social network data in 
communication analysis (e.g., in social media communication)

The preconference is co-sponsored by the ICA’s Mass Communication 
Division and the ICA’s Political Communication Division, but it touches 
upon the fields of many more ICA divisions and interest groups. The 
preconference aims to bring together researchers from different 
backgrounds, including theoretically, methodologically, and practically 
oriented researchers in diverse fields of application, both inside and 
outside the academia. It thereby aims to instill a mutual learning 
process and exchange innovative ideas and challenges for the further 
development of network analysis in communication research.
We invite contributions that make use of social, semantic, or both types 
of network analysis to address relevant questions in communication 
research, to advance network analytic methodology for the study of 
communication, or to advance communication theory to integrate with 
network analytic methodology.
Contributions can come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds, 
but should relate to both network analytic methodology and communication 
science research questions and/or theory. Submissions will be evaluated 
according to their innovative potential, methodological quality, and 
contribution to communication science research.
In addition to more classic research presentations, we explicitly invite 
the sharing of network-analytic tools and data, which can be presented 
in a especially dedicated high-density demonstration session). These 
demonstrations serve to introduce new software tools (open access tools 
privileged) for applying network analysis in communication science 
research, and open access data sets available to the research community 
(e.g., “big data” with network-analytic potential).

Submissions for a regular presentation should be original papers of 
approximately 4000 to 8000 words, which have not been published 
elsewhere. In an accompanying abstract of 150 words, they should 
emphasize the specific contribution of their paper to advancing network 
analytic research and theory in communications.
Submissions for the high-density demonstration session should provide 
extended abstracts (1000 to 1500 words) that introduce the data or tool 
presented. As far as applicable, these abstracts should also state the 
conditions of use of the presented tool or data for other researchers.
All submissions must be uploaded to 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s2netcom by January 24, 
2014, with all identifying information removed from the manuscript or 
abstract. All contributions will be blindly peer-reviewed, and 
acceptance notifications will be sent out by in mid-February 2014.


Registration for the preconference is open to both presenters and 
non-presenters, opens on January 15, 2014, and closes on May 2, 2014. 
Registration fees are 60 USD for students (graduate, doctoral) and 100 
USD for both faculty (PhD holders) and practitioners outside the 
academia. The preconference will take place on Thursday, May 22, 2014, 
at the Sheraton Seattle (venue of the 64th ICA Annual conference).


For any direct inquiries regarding this preconference, please contact 
any of the following:


Wouter van Atteveldt, VU Amsterdam: (w.h.van.atteveldt /at/ vu.nl)
Christian Baden, LMU Munich: (c.baden /at/ lmu.de)
Jana Diesner, UIUC: (jdiesner /at/ illinois.edu)

This preconference is kindly supported by www.networkinstitute.org

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Dr. Christian Baden
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft & Medienforschung (IfKW)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 München, Germany
+49-89-2180-9425
(c.baden /at/ lmu.de)


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