[ecrea] cfp: WWW Workshop Making Sense of Microposts

     the 6th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2016)

                   at World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016),

                            (Computational) Social Science Track

http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu/socsci_track.html

                                             11/12th Apr 2016

                                             Montreal, Canada

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To foster collaboration between Computer Science and Social Sciences,
and continue to encourage contribution from the latter domain to improve
on 'Making Sense of Microposts', we will have for the second time a
special track dedicated to (Computational) Social Science papers.

THEME: Big things come in small packages

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The #Microposts workshops aim to bring together researchers from
multiple disciplines to debate current, leading edge effort toward
analysing and understanding Microposts - "information published on the
Web that is small in size and requires minimal effort to publish.
Microposts include tweets (using plain text or with embedded links and
objects); social network endorsement using Instagram hearts; check-ins
via Facebook and Foursquare, pins on Pinterest; links to brief,
pre-recorded and streaming video via Snapchat and Meerkat. Although
individual Microposts are small and therefore typically focus on a
single thought, message or theme, collectively they provide a rich
source of information and opinion about a range of topics. Among others,
the (Computational) Social Science track will examine the human in
Micropost data generation and analysis; we encourage submissions that
look at understanding how situation and context, and social and cultural
phenomena and language drive individual and collective publication of
Microposts, whether targeted at the general public, a specific person or
other entity, e.g. a ruling government or a cause. The workshop aims to
continue to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve
understanding of the generation and reuse of Micropost data, and discuss
application of the knowledge thus derived in a variety of contexts,
including crowd movement, mass communication, and its influence on
citizen empowerment and the formatino of opinion and sentiment.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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The special (Computational) Social Sciences track at #Microposts2016
will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, first:

Computational Social Science & Web Science Studies

                - Collective awareness

                - Education & citizen empowerment, data journalism

                - Digital & media literacy regarding Micropost data

                - Civil action, media & politics

                - Political and polemical aspects of Microposts

                - Conflicts and crises

                - Ethics, legal and privacy issues

                - Psychological profiles and psychological aspects of
Micropost-based interactions

                - Cultural phenomena & memes

                - Social media and wellbeing

                - Cultural, generational and regional differences in
access and use

                - Inequality in access and use of digital, social media

                - Emerging social and communication dynamics resulting
from Micropost-based services

                - Critical reflections on big data

                - Linguistics & Microposts

Additionally, the topics below, detailed in the CfP for the main track,
are of interest to the Social Sciences community, regarding obtaining
understanding about, discovering knowledge content of, add application
of Micropost data:

                - Emergent semantics

                - Data mining from Microposts

                - Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis

                - Network analysis and community detection

                - Influence detection and social contagion modelling

                - Prediction approaches

                - Linking Microposts into the Web of Linked Data (i.e.
entity extraction and URI disambiguation)

APPLICATIONS:

                - Collective intelligence, user profiling,
personalisation & recommendation

                - Business analytics & market intelligence

                - Event & topic detection and tendency tracking

                - Microposts as second screen to television

                - Geo-localised, Micropost-based services

                - Public consensus & citizen participation

                - Security, emergency response & health

                - Effortless posting and wearable devices on communication

                - Linking social and physical signals for, e.g., crowd
tracking

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

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A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day, and
followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo session
to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants.
The last set of presentations will be brief overviews of selected
submissions to the Challenge. The workshop will close with the
presentation of awards.

SUBMISSIONS

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    Full papers: 6 pages

    Position papers & extended abstracts: 3 pages

All written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG
Proceedings Template (at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should
include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 author-selected keywords.
Where a submission includes additional material submission this should
be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text
file listing its contents.

Submission is via EasyChair, at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2016

Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, 2 peer reviews.

We aim to publish the #Microposts2016 proceedings as a single volume
containing all three tracks, via CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org), a free, open
access, online platform for publishing workshop proceedings. CEUR-WS.org
is a recognised ISSN publication series.

Submissions to the Social Sciences track may, in addition to presenting
novel work, include extended abstracts summarising or discussing
previously published work or presenting position statements. One author
of each accepted paper is expected to register for and give a
presentation at the workshop - registration fees and details may be
found on the WWW’2016 website (http://www2016.ca)

The main workshop website (above) provides more detail, as well as the
dedicated track page at:
http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu/socsci_track.html

IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline: *13 Jan 2016*

Notification: 02 Feb 2016

Camera-ready deadline: 08 Feb 2016

(all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)

Early Bird Registration: Feb 2016

Workshop - 11th or 12th Apr 2016 (open to all)

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BEST PAPER AWARD:

Sponsored by GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany (
http://www.gesis.org )

Award: €300 to highest ranking submission

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CONTACT

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E-mail: (microposts2016 /at/ easychair.org) <mailto:(microposts2016 /at/ easychair.org)>

Twitter persona: @Microposts2016

Twitter hashtag: #Microposts2016

W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts

TRACK CHAIR

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Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

Workshop Organisers

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A. Elizabeth Cano, KMi, The Open University, UK

Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Danica Radovanović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Aba-Sah Dadzie, KMi, The Open University, UK

Advisory Committee & Publicity

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Milan Stankovic, Sépage & STIH / Université Paris-Sorbonne, France

Program Committee

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Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Julie Birkholz, CHEGG, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Jordan Carpenter, University of Pennsylvania, USA

A. Seza Doğruöz, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Fabio Giglietto, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Athina Karatzogianni, University of Leicester, UK

José M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico

Raquel Recuero, Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil

Luca Rossi, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK

Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK

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Dr. Katrin Weller

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Dept. Computational Social Science

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

D-50667 Köln

Germany

E-Mail: (katrin.weller /at/ gesis.org) <mailto:(katrin.weller /at/ gesis.org)>

Web: http://katrinweller.net <http://katrinweller.net/>



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