Hi fellow AoIRists, Hope everyone had fun at IR13! As you all know, the ICA deadline is quickly approaching, and I'm looking for a final panelist for a group looking at (qualitative or quantitative) social science questions using social media data with a combination of computational and social scientific methods. The panel is tentatively titled "Downsizing Data: Analyzing Social Digital Traces," to emphasize narrowing social media's big data issues into specific samples and particular questions. Our current panelists are looking at qualitative research questions present in information sharing on Twitter, networks and identity on Tumblr, and social behaviors reflected in data on Foursquare. We're looking for someone who is working on another platform different from these (or potentially a cross-platform project). Again, we're aiming for someone who can speak to using computational methods (for data collection or analysis) in the analysis of social science questions (whether qualitative or quantitative). If you're interested, please send along a quick and informal 100-word abstract-spiel to this email address (aleavitt@usc.edu) about your proposed paper by 5:00pm EST on Friday October 26th. Any questions -- send 'em along. Thanks! Alex --- Alexander Leavitt PhD Student USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt