Dear colleagues, We are organising an ICA’2016 preconference workshop on mining social media for communication research, which will be held in Tokyo in June 8, 2016. Please kindly help distribute the call for participants to your colleagues/friends/students. Thanks! Best, Hai *Call for Participants for ICA’2016 Preconference Workshop on Mining Social Media for Communication Research* *Date and Time: * June 8, 2016 (9:00-12:00 and 14:00-17:00) *Location and Venue: * National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan The emergence of social media has provided both opportunities and challenges for communication research, ranging from data acquisition to measurement construction, statistical analysis, and results presentation. However, the existing tools (such as manual content analysis and SPSS package) with which communication scholars are familiar become increasingly inadequate. This one-day preconference workshop will focus on four key steps in mining social media for communication research, including overall design, data collection, data analysis, and data visualization. The workshop will use Twitter as a primary running example of social media, as Twitter is arguably the most heavily studied social media platform by communication scholars. All training talks in the workshop will be a mixture of conceptual discussions and hands-on practices (using R language as the primary tool). As such, the participants are requested to bring with their notebook computers. For more detailed information, please visit http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk/blog/workshops/ica-2016-workshop/. You can download the registration form at http://tinyurl.com/mining2016 . Please return this registration form to Dr. Winson Peng at winsonpeng@ntu.edu.sg. -- Hai Liang, Ph.D. | Post-doctoral Fellow | JMSC-The University of Hong Kong | http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk/blog/lianghai/