[ecrea] 6th Annual International Social Media & Society Conference Toronto, Canada, July 27-29, 2015

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6th Annual International
Social Media & Society Conference
Toronto, Canada
July 27-29, 2015
Website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/
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Call for Submissions

Academic research on social media is growing exponentially across 
various disciplines including: Communications, Information / Library 
Science, Computer Science, Business, Sociology, Education, Psychology, 
Health and others. The Web of Science alone indexed nearly 5,000 journal 
and conference publications over the last decade. This growing body of 
research revealed many interesting factors about social media platforms, 
their users, and a glimpse of our society at large. But are we any 
closer to understanding the broader implications of social media on our 
increasing networked society?

The 2015 Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety15) invites 
scholarly and original submissions that build on the previous work and 
critically evaluate the role of social media for social and political 
change, community engagement, marketing, new forms of governance, 
support of individuals and organizations in domains such as business, 
information, management, public administration, academia, health, and 
journalism (just to mention a few). We are also calling for submissions 
that develop and apply novel methods and theories to collect, analyze, 
and visualize social media data as well as those that discuss ethical 
and privacy implications of using big and small data. We welcome both 
quantitative and qualitative work in the broad area of Social Media & 
Society that crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our 
understanding of the current and future trends in social media.

Whether you are just starting a new research project or ready to report 
on the final results, you will find that #SMSociety15 is a great venue 
for you! The 2015 conference invites a wide range of submissions:
- short papers on completed or well-developed projects (Due: March 2, 2015)
- work-in-progress paper abstracts (Due: April 10, 2015),
- panel discussions (Due: March 2, 2015)
- poster presentations (Due: May 1, 2015).

New to this year, we are also calling for proposals to host:
- half-day workshops (Due: February 2, 2015) on a well-defined area or 
technical tutorials that will examine a particular method or tool for 
the analysis of social media data in more detail

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES
All accepted short papers will be published in the Conference 
Proceedings by the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 
(ICPS). Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their 
full papers to the special issue of the Information, Communication & 
Society journal (published by Taylor & Francis).

BACKGROUND
The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of leading 
social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 6th year, 
the 2015 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from July 27 to 29, 
2015. From its inception, the conference has focused on the best 
practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on 
society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University, the 
conference provides attendees an opportunity to exchange ideas, present 
their original research, learn about recently completed and 
work-in-progress studies, and strengthen connections with their peers. 
The 2014 conference hosted over 200 attendees, featured research from 
238 authors across several fields from 21 different countries.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Social Media & Small Data
? Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media
? Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media
? Sampling Issues
? Value of Small Data

Social Media & Big Data
? Visualization of Social Media Data
? Social Media Data Mining
? Scalability Issues & Social Media Data
? Social Media Analytics
? Ethics of Big Data

Social Media Impact on Society
? Private Self/Public Self
? The Sharing/Attention Economy
? Virality & Memes
? Political Mobilization & Engagement
? Social Media & Health
? Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.)
? Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.)
? Social Media & Public Administration
? Social Media & the News

Theories & Methods
? Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches
? Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis
? Social Network Analysis
? Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media

Online/Offline Communities
? Trust & Credibility in Social Media
? Online Community Detection
? Influential User Detection
? Online Identity

Social Media & Mobile
? App-ification of the Society
? Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World
? Apps for the Social Good
? Networking Apps

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The list of the Program Committee members is available at 
https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1346

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Anatoliy Gruzd
Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management
Director, Social Media Lab
Ryerson University, Canada
Twitter: @gruzd

Barry Wellman
Professor & Director, NetLab
University of Toronto, Canada
Twitter: @barrywellman

Philip H. Mai
Manager of Academic Communications
Ryerson University, Canada
Twitter: @phmai

Jenna Jacobson
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information (iSchool)
University of Toronto, Canada
Twitter: @jacobsonjenna


MORE INFORMATION AT http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/





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