[ecrea] Social Media Studies: Invitation to participate

You are warmly invited to two closely related events that will take
place on September 15, 2015 in Borås Sweden.

These are:

·*The Social Media Studies Symposium (SMS-S)* which will take place at
09:00-12:00.

SMS-S offers a forum for presentation and discussion of current research
on social media. The theme for this year’s symposium is “Critical
perspectives in social media research”. The call for extended abstracts
is open and the deadline for submission is 15 June, 2015. Submitted
contributions will go through a peer review process and there will be an
opportunity for publication of subsequent full papers in a special
collection supplemented to the /Information Research /journal, Volume
21, Number 2, June 2016. This symposium will be held in English.

*For submissions please see: **www.hb.se/sms-s* <http://www.hb.se/sms-s>

·*Mötesplats Sociala Medier (MSM)* conference will take place on the
same day at 13:00-17:00. MSM provides a space for dialogue between
researchers, politicians, policy makers, and city administrators around
issues related to social media. The theme for this year’s conference is
related to how we receive news and form a perception of the world and
political issues through social media (Världsbild och politik genom
sociala medier). The conference is held in Swedish.The conference
programme is already in place, as part of which and as usual, the
prestigious Social Media Award will be presented to this year’s winner
at the conference.
*For more details please see: **http://goo.gl/MUumzr*

You are therefore invited to:

1.Participate in either or both of these events

2.*Submit an extended abstract* for the SMS-S symposium

3.Volunteer as a reviewer (for the abstracts submitted to the symposium)

For further information please feel free to reply to this email or
contact the undersigned.


Best regards,

Nasrine

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Nasrine Olson (PhD)
Senior Lecturer
Swedish School of Library and Information Science
University of Borås
501 90 Borås, Sweden
Tel: +46 - 33 - 435 4318
(_Nasrine.Olson /at/ hb.se) <mailto:(Nasrine.Olson /at/ hb.se)>_



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