Please contact the special issue coeditors (ymejova@yahoo-inc.com, iweber@qf.org.qa) if you have questions about this CFP, thanks. --- Quantifying Politics Using Online Data Special Issue -- Social Science Computer Review Journal https://sites.google.com/site/qpol2013 Submission deadline: July 7, 2013 (Abstracts: June 1) Submission website:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpol2013 Large web-based datasets make possible political studies at a scale inconceivable just a few decades before. Everything from personal opinions to popular political movements leaves a footprint online, and provides a first-hand account of both everyday and historic events. This new data also calls for new approaches -- quantitative methods developed in the realms of political and social science, but also in data analysis and mining. Applied to online data, these make possible language modeling, topic tracking, novelty detection, social network mining, and many more types of analyses, all providing new insights into the social and political realities. This special issue focuses on the application of quantitative methods in political analysis of online data. The sources of such data may be, but are not limited to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, news comments, Wikipedia edits, discussion forums, blogs, etc. Social Science Computer Review (SSCR) is an interdisciplinary journal covering social science instructional and research applications of computing, as well as societal impacts of information technology. Impact Factor: 1.075 Ranked: 58 out of 99 in Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications, 26 out of 89 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary and 28 out of 83 in Information Science & Library Science Source: 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012) Important Dates June 1, 2013 -- Abstracts (1 page excluding references) due June 7, 2013 -- Abstracts notifications sent out July 7, 2013 -- Paper submission deadline (11h59pm Hawaii time,http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=103) August 20, 2013 -- Author notification sent out September 1, 2013 -- Camera ready version due November 1, 2013 -- Expected online publication date (http://online.sagepub.com/site/sphelp/SageColl_PAP.xhtml) February 15, 2014 -- Expected print publication date Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not be under review for any other conference or journal, and should be significantly different from previously published work, and should present original contributions. Duplicate submissions will be rejected. The special edition will apply a two-step reviewing process. The 1-page abstract, due by June 1, will be reviewed by the editors and checked for (i) topical relevance, (ii) presentation quality, (iii) novelty, and (iv) at least one quantitative finding, meaning that there has to be at least one number in the abstract that quantifies some aspect of politics. Authors of abstracts that satisfy the conditions are then invited to submit a full paper by July 7. This paper will then undergo a conference style reviewing cycle to ensure timely publication. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three distinct experts. Additional external reviewers might be called upon depending on the submission volume. Authors will receive acceptance notification and detailed feedback from the reviewers on August 20. Formatting: Use this template [https://sites.google.com/site/qpol2013/submission-details/sscr_template.doc], meaning submissions must be: Only OpenOffice or MS Word .doc or .docx file format 12 point font, double-spaced (including references) Target page count: 25 pages, maximum: 40 pages, including citations and figures For more formatting information see Submission Details,https://sites.google.com/site/qpol2013/submission-details Submission website:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpol2013 Editors Yelena Mejova, Yahoo! Research Barcelona Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute Program Committee Bob Boynton, Political Science, University of Iowa, USA Andrew Dowdle, Political Science, University of Arkansas, USA Deen Freelon, School of Communication, American University, USA Justin Grimmer, Political Science, Stanford University, USA Brian Keegan, Political Science, Northeastern University, USA Wolfgang Nejdl, Computer Science, L3S, Germany Paolo Parigi, Sociology, Stanford University, USA Marco Pennacchiotti, Computer Science, eBay Inc., USA Ana-Maria Popescu, Computer Science, Pinfluencer, USA Maya Ramanath, Computer Science, IIT-Delhi, India Richard Rogers, New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands David Rothschild, Economy, Microsoft Research, USA Adam Sharp, Government, News & Social Innovation, Twitter Inc., USA Stefan Stieglitz, Kommunikations- und Kollaborationsmanagement, Universität Münster, Germany Elad Yom-Tov, Computer Science, Microsoft Research, USA -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor American University School of Communication Office: Asbury 228A dfreelon@gmail.com http://dfreelon.org