International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

DISCIPLINES

Computational approaches to social media research including

Natural language processing

Text / data mining

Machine learning

Image / multimedia processing

Graphics and visualization

Distributed computing

Graph theory and Network Science

Human-computer interaction

Social science approaches to social media research including

Psychology

Sociology and social network analysis

Communication

Political science

Economics

Anthropology

Media studies and journalism

Digital Humanities

Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies

TOPICS INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)

Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media

Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media

Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media

Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media

Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors

Ranking/relevance of social media content and users

Credibility of online content

Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery

Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization

Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior

Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification

Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting

Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health

New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques

Engagement, motivations, incentives, and gamification.

Social innovation and effecting change through social media

Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior

Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media

TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA INCLUDE

Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn)

Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr)

Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia)

Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post)

Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups

Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram)

Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers)

User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com)

Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest)

Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare)

Messaging platforms (e.g., Snapchat, Messenger, WhatsApp)