Chairs

  • Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
  • Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA

Track Program Committee

  • Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, INRIA & Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
  • Ciro Cattuto, ISI, Italy
  • Jamer Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Ed Chi, Google, USA
  • Alvin Chin, Nokia, China
  • Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research, USA
  • Padraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Maciej Dabrowski, DERI, Ireland
  • Jana Diesner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, USA
  • Jill Freyne, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
  • Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois, USA
  • Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
  • Rumi Ghosh, USC, USA
  • Bruno Goncalves, Northeastern University, USA
  • Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California, USA
  • Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
  • Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Bahareh Heravi, DERI, Ireland
  • Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK
  • Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands
  • C.J. Hutto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Robert Jaeschke, L3S Research Center, Germany
  • Thomas Kannampallil, NYAM, USA
  • Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, USA
  • Florian Lemmerich, University of Wuerzburg, Gemrmany
  • Yu-Ru Lin, Harvard/Northeastern Universities, USA
  • Bjoern-Elmar Macek, University of Kassel, Germany
  • Winter Mason, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
  • Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin, Germany
  • Oded Nov, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA
  • Else Nygren, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Alexandre Passant, MDG Web, Ireland
  • Steffen Rendle, University of Konstanz, Germany
  • Haggai Roitman, IBM Research, Israel
  • Daniel Romero, Northwestern University, USA
  • Alan Said, TU- Berlin, Germany
  • Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft , USA
  • Christoph Scholz, University of Kassel, Germany
  • Marc Smith, Connected Action, USA
  • Rok Sosic, Stanford University, USA
  • Sara Sood, Pomona College, USA
  • Markus Strohmaier, TU Graz, Austria
  • Lei Tang, WalmartLabs, USA
  • Christoph Trattner, TU Graz, Austria
  • Zhiyong Yu, Institut TELECOM SudParis, France
  • Daqing Zhang, Institut Telecom Sud de Paris, France
  • Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA

Goals

Social media has revolutionized how people create and consume information and interact with one another. On sites such as Twitter, Facebook, the various blogs and wikis, people share ideas, opinions, and interests, and respond to those expressed by others. Social media systems have thereby generalized the conventional notion of a hyperlink to imply connections between individuals in particular, via their shared content, media, concepts, and other artifacts. A characteristic property of this new genre of connections is that they promote rich social interactions among individuals involved in the sharing and artifact-building process. At the same time, the growing popularity of these systems presents some challenges: how to motivate new users to participate, how to sustain communities over time, how to manage social media traffic or decipher the large information spaces engendering the interactions.

Making sense of these complex interactions has attracted significant attention in various research communities over the recent years. This track is geared towards developing deeper insights into the mechanisms of information exchange, user and network characterization as well as the discovery, analysis, and modeling of the dynamic social processes in these systems. It provides a key forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the current state of art. Addressing several problems in this space necessitates expertise in a variety of domains, spanning Computer and Information Science, Social Sciences, Psychology, Math and Economics. Hence submissions promoting interdisciplinary collaboration are highly encouraged.

We invite original, high-quality submissions on all aspects of social media.

Topics of interest

  • Information diffusion
  • Community evolution
  • Social network and social media analytics
  • Social information seeking and recommender systems
  • Social search and retrieval systems
  • Temporal and spatial analysis of social and information networks
  • Participatory user behavior
  • User modeling
  • Information visualization of social data
  • Language analytics in social media
  • Mobile social media
  • Privacy
  • Spam, misinformation and malicious activity discovery in social systems
  • Social gaming
  • Expertise and trust in online social systems
  • Crowdsourcing and social computing