THEME: Rethinking Privacy and Trust in the Social Media Age
IMPORTANT DATES
Full papers (6-10 pages) Due: Jan. 28, 2019
WIP papers (1000-word extended abstract) Due: Jan. 28, 2019
Panels, Workshops, & Posters Due: Mar. 18, 2019
PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES
Full papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will be invited to submit their work as a full paper to the special issue of the Social Media + Society journal (published by SAGE).
SUBMISSION DETAILS: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 10th year, the 2019 conference is being held in Toronto, Canada from July 19 to 21. 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 Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, the conference provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers.
The conference’s intensive three-day program features hands-on workshops, full papers, work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters. The wide-ranging topics in social media showcase research from scholars working in many fields including Management, Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Political Science, and Sociology.
CONFERENCE THEME: Rethinking Privacy and Trust in the Social Media Age
Can we trust what we hear and see on social media? For a time, social media was viewed as a net positive for society. In their 2013 book, The New Digital Age, Google’s Jared Cohen and Eric Schmidt wrote:“Never before have so many people been connected through an instantly responsive network.” In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, wrote a glowing endorsement of the internet and social media calling it “a force for peace in the world.” He argued that connecting people through social media would help to bring about a “shared understanding” of the human condition and build a “common global community.”
Fast forward to 2018, social media is now embroiled in a series of ongoing public scandals involving data abuse and misuse—with the most infamous scandal involving the UK data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. More troubling is fact that social media has emerged as fertile ground for fostering anti-social behaviour and is an important vector for disinformation, misinformation, and manipulation operations. These realities have further raised users’ privacy concerns and challenged public trust in social media, which has resulted in a revitalized call for new legislation and regulation.
Considering this context, the International Conference on Social Media & Society invites scholarly and original submissions that explore key questions and central issues related (but not limited) to the 2019 theme of “Rethinking Privacy and Trust in the Social Media Age.” We welcome research from a wide range of methodological perspectives employing established quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods as well as innovative approaches that cross interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research, especially research that seeks to explore:
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Social Media Impact on Society
· Privacy
· Trust & credibility
· Political mobilization & engagement
· Extremism & terrorism
· Politics of hate and oppression
· Health and well-being
Social Media & Business
· Brand communities
· Influencer & marketing
· Public & customer relations
· Cybervetting and HR
· Risk management
Social Media & Public Sector
· Government social media management
· Adoption, use, strategies and policies
· Trust towards public agencies
· Citizens’ engagement
· Citizens’ privacy & security concerns
Social Media & Academia
· Alternative metrics
· Learning analytics
· Teaching with social media
· University branding
Online/Offline Communities
· Online community detection
· Influential user detection
· Identity and anonymity
· Case studies
Social Media & Mobile
· Appification of society
· Privacy & security issues in a mobile world
· Encrypted messaging apps
· Fake news & misinformation
Theories & Methods
· Qualitative approaches
· Quantitative approaches
· Mixed methods
· Opinion mining & sentiment analysis
· Social network analysis
· Theoretical models
Big & Small Data
· Value of small data
· Data mining and analytics
· Sampling issues
· Visualization
· Scalability issues
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