The 9th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-15) Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://icwsm.org/2015/ * Workshop Proposals Due: December 15, 2014 * Paper Abstracts Due: January 18, 2015 (by 11:59 pm AOE) * Full Papers Due: January 23, 2015 (by 11:59 pm AOE) * Acceptance Notification: March 9, 2015 * Conference: May 26-29, 2015 in Oxford, UK SUMMARY SUBMISSION GUIDELINE Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ICWSM are recommended to be 8 pages long, and must be at most 10 pages long, including figures and references. The final camera-ready length (between 8-10 pages) for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Poster and demo paper format: Poster paper submissions to ICWSM must be 4 pages long, including figures and references. Demo paper submissions to ICWSM must be 2 pages long, including figures and references. All papers must be follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Anonymity: Paper submissions to ICWSM must be anonymized. Social science track with only abstracts in the proceedings: We will be continuing the “social science” track at ICWSM-15 following its successful debut in 2013. This option is for researchers in social science who wish to submit full papers without publication in the conference proceedings. While papers in this track will not be published, we expect these submissions to describe the same high-quality and complete work as the main track submissions. Papers accepted to this track will be full presentations integrated with the conference, but they will be published only as abstracts in the conference proceedings. DISCIPLINES * Computational approaches to social media research including * Natural language processing * Text / data mining * Machine learning * Image / multimedia processing * Graphics and visualization * Distributed computing * Graph theory and graphical models * Human-computer interaction * Social science approaches to social media research including * Psychology * Sociology and social network analysis * Communication * Political science * Economics * Anthropology * Media studies and journalism * Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA include * Weblogs (posts, comments, and/or social shares) * Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn) * Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr) * Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia) * Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post) * Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups * Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram) * Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers) * User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com) * Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest) * Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare) TOPICS INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO) * Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media * Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media * Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media * Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors * Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on weblogs * Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery * Collaborative filtering * Trust; reputation; recommendation systems * Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization * Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior * Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification * Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting * Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health * New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques * Social innovation and effecting change through social media * Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior * Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media * Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media General Chair Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona Local Chair Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute Program Co-Chairs Meeyoung Cha, KAIST Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan --- Assistant Professor School of Information University of Michigan http://yardi.people.si.umich.edu/