Dear air-list members, Apologies for cross-postings. Call for Abstracts: III° Workshop on advanced research methods University of Urbino Carlo Bo Urbino – Italy 14, September 2012 During recent years the growing availability of digital user generated contents and social network sites data led toward new possibilities for social researches and new approaches and methods came on the scene. On one side these new methods (sometimes labeled computational social science) offer the availability of large amount of data that were unconceivable before but, on the other side, these data raise new issues challenging traditional research methodologies on several different aspects: sampling strategies, data acquisition, data management, research ethics, data ownership etc. The availability of these Social Big Data offered computer scientists the opportunity to deal with topics traditionally belonging to social sciences (political participation, communication studies, sociology). This situation is widely recognized and is generating a growing number of venues (both conferences and journals) characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach that aims at moving beyond traditional research tradition of both fields. Starting from this perspective the PhD program in Communication Studies and Arts of the Department of Communication Studies of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo continues its research plan organizing the third edition of the Workshop of Advanced Research Methods that will be hold at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo on Sep. 14th 2012. The workshop aim to bring together researchers coming from different fields that, in their own research, are dealing with: - UGC production practices; - UGC Sharing practices: cultural and legal aspects; - Online identity - Online Social Data Mining and management - Social Network Analysis applied to Web2.0 data - Online information propagation - Online communities Short abstracts (500 words) have to be submitted through the website: http://larica.uniurb.it/scss/warm Deadlines: - Abstract submission: August 1st 2012 - Notification of acceptance: August 20th 2012 Contacts: Luca Rossi, Larica - Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” email: luca.rossi@uniurb.it t. +39 0722305726 f. +39 0722305727