JITP 2011 "The Future of Computational Social Science" will be held May 16 & 17, 2011 at the University of Washington. http://www.umass.edu/jitp/ The early-bird registration deadline is March 20, 2011. After March 20, the fees go up $50. Students: $50 Others: $75 Click here to register now: https://quikpayasp.com/umass/commerce_manager/payer.do?orderType=POLSCI In addition to a keynote by Jaime Teevan of Microsoft Research, two featured panels, free tutorials, and a variety of posters, this conference will focus discussions around extended presentations on: "Researching Real-world Web Use with Roxy, A Research Proxy" "Tradeoffs in Accuracy and Efficiency in Supervised Learning Methods" "An Automated Snowball Census of the Political Web" "Facilitating Encounters with Political Difference: Engaging Voters with the Living Voters Guide" "InfoExtractor – A Tool for Social Media Data Mining" "Politics 2.0 with Facebook – Collecting and Analyzing Public Comments on Facebook for Studying Political Discourses" "News Media Environment, Selective Perception, and the Survival of Preference Diversity within Communication Networks" "Ethical Considerations: Social Media as Computational Social Science" The goal is to produce a special issue of JITP via a combination of multiple peer review rounds and a thorough discussion with an all-in-one-room interdisciplinary group. We are very excited to do this on the UW campus this year, as we know the campus is home to some of the leading thinkers in this space. On behalf of the JITP community, I hope to see you in Seattle in May. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu@polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/