Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communications


The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC) is intended to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies. It is intended to serve as a resource and to support a network of scholarly research as to the social consequences of mobile communication.




Monday, January 5, 2015

CFP: Making Sense of Microposts Workshop


the 5th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2015) at WWW 2015

http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2015

18th/19th May 2015
Florence, Italy

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', there will be a special track dedicated to Social Science papers at #Microposts2015.

THEME: Big things come in small packages
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 (e.g. a Tweet, Facebook share, Instagram like, Google +1)". 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. The workshop aims to continue to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; to assess different approaches to gleaning the information content of Micropost data; and discuss application of this knowledge content in a variety of contexts,
including emergency response, crowd and event tracking, mass communication, opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Enabling the understanding and application of Microposts requires techniques and tools that function at scale, and that are able to handle the very high rate at which Microposts are published.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The special Social Sciences track at #Microposts2015 will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, first:
Social & Web Science Studies
  • Collective awareness
  • Education & citizen empowerment, data journalism
  • Civil action, media & politics
  • Political and polemical aspects of Microposts
  • Ethics, legal and privacy issues
  • Psychological profiles and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interactions
  • 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
Additionally, the topics below, detailed in the CfP for the main track, include topics 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
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