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Submit your extended abstract until May 16, 2015! <<  ====================================================                                      #FAIL! Things thatdidn't work out in social media research –              and what we can learn from them                1st #FAIL! workshop (#fail2015a)  Held at Web Science Conference 2015 (#websci15)                               June29, 2015                                 Oxford, UK           http://failworkshops.wordpress.com/                                            ==================================================== -------------------THEME:Things that didn't work out in social media research - and what we can learnfrom them-------------------Have youever tried approaches in social media research that did not quite work out? Nowis the time to share these experiences! We wouldlike everyone to submit their individual stories of "failed" researchapproaches in the field of studying social media and social media users. We arelooking for examples from all phases of the research process (e.g. datacollection, data processing, data analysis, data sharing, also includingadministrative tasks, research ethics and legal challenges) that did not workout as expected. Presentedcase studies should help other researchers in the field to advance researchmethodology by identifying unsuccessful approaches and to inspire discussionson alternative solutions.  ----------------IMPORTANTDATES----------------Submissiondeadline: May 16, 2015 (23:59 Hawaii time – no extension) Notification:May 26, 2015 Camera-ready:June 20, 2015 Workshop date:June 29, 2015 WebSci15Conference dates: June 28 to July 1, 2015 Early birdregistration for WebSci15: May 28, 2015 ------------SUBMISSIONS------------Submissionsshould be extended abstracts of 1,000 to 2,000 words. Submissionswill be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fail2015a Please seethe workshop website for details on how to prepare and submit your proposal: https://failworkshops.wordpress.com/fail-workshop-at-websci15/cfp/ ------------------------------WORKSHOPSTRUCTURE AT WEBSCI15------------------------------The threehours workshop at WebSci15 will consist of short presentations of about 15minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussions. In thediscussions we aim at collaboratively searching for alternative solutions forthe presented problems. ---------------------OVERALLORGANISATION ---------------------We areplanning to organize additional #FAIL! workshops at other conferences in thefuture. In this way, we want to help to connect the different communitiesengaged in studying social media. A second workshop has been accepted atInternet Research (#IR16) in October in Phoenix, Arizona. Watch out theworkshop website for updates on upcoming events.  -----------ORGANISERS-----------KatrinWeller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany (@kwelle, katrin.weller@gesis.org)Luca Rossi,IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (@lr, lucr@itu.dk)TahaYasseri, University of Oxford, UK (@tahayasseri, taha.yasseri@oii.ox.ac.uk)