Dear colleagues, Due to popular demand, we have extended the abstract submission deadline for SNIC 2013 by two weeks. The new abstract submission deadline is Monday the 29th of April, 2013. Abstracts (300 words max) should be submitted to snic2013@wlv.ac.uk<mailto:snic2013@wlv.ac.uk> and we welcome contributions from scholars (including postgraduates) in the social and behavioural sciences and media and information disciplines, regardless of theoretical orientation. All abstracts will be subjected to peer-review and we hope to inform you of our decision within one week of the submission deadline. Information on conference themes and fees can be found on our SNIC 2013 webpage @ www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2013<http://www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2013>. Alternatively, receive conference updates by following us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/SNIC2013> The conference takes place between Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th of July, 2013 and the confirmed keynote speakers are as follows: Professor Mark Griffiths<http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/Profiles/51652-1-4/Professor_Mark_Griffiths.aspx> (Division of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University) Dr Karen Douglas<http://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/people/douglask/> (School of Psychology, University of Kent) Professor Simeon Yates<http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/c3ri/people/simeon-yates> (Director of the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) at Sheffield Hallam University) We plan to inform anyone who submitted an abstract by the original deadline of our decision by Friday 19th of April. Registration will also open on Friday 19th of April. Please do get in touch if you have any questions or would like to discuss the suitability of your research for the conference Hope to see you in July Kind regards Dr Chris Fullwood Event coordinator -- Scanned by iCritical.