Call for papers: 2nd International Workshop on Analyzing Social Media for the Benefit of Society (Society 2.0), to be held in conjunction with the 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom) 2014Â on 3-5 December 2014. Sydney, Australia.
Qualitative and quantitative social research has changed significantly with the rise of Web 2.0, which has enabled publishing of user-generated content on an epic scale. This "Big Social Data" is most evidently manifested in the advent of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and MySpace, and its analysis is becoming incredibly important to the empirical study of society.
Recent academic studies of social media provide some interesting insights into the online society. They also highlight the importance of developing appropriate digital analysis methods and tools to enable researchers to capture, analyze and visualize the vast amount of data now becoming available. This workshop will be a blend of positional presentations, novel research presentations, discussions about the current status, emergent areas and trends in social media analysis.
Contributions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Risk Awareness, Assessment and Management
- Security and Privacy
- Event modelling and forecasting
- Analysis of social 'mood'
- Information flow analysis
- Complex Societal Interaction Modelling
- Online Behaviour Modelling and Analysis
- Disaster Management
- Economic forecasting
- Topic Clustering
- Anomaly Detection
- Informing Social Policy and Government
- Temporal Societal Structure Modelling
- Social Influence Analysis
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submission via EasyChair.
Publications
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.
Submission Deadline: August 15th 2014
Author Notification : September 25th 2014
Camera Ready: October 15th 2014
For further information contact Dr. Pete Burnap (p.burnap@cs.cardiff.ac.uk)
Organising Committee
Dr Pete Burnap, Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University
Dr Gualtiero (Walter) Colombo, Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University
Mr Adam Edwards, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Dr Anita Greenhill, Manchester Business School
Professor William Housley, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Dr Maria Liakarta, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University
Dr Jeffrey Morgan, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Professor Rob Procter, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University
Professor Omer Rana, Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University
Dr Luke Sloan, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Dr Alex Voss, Department of Computer Science, St. Andrews University
Dr Matthew Williams, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University