[Asis-l] CSCW'13 Workshop on Social Media Question Asking

[Mark S. Ackerman]

Announcing the Workshop on Social Media Question Asking, to be held on 
February 24, 2013, in conjunction with the ACM CSCW conference in San 
Antonio, Texas.


Social media question asking, in which people use Internet technologies 
to solicit help from other people, is an increasingly common way for 
people to find information. This workshop aims to bring together 
researchers studying social media question asking from a variety of 
perspectives, including social scientists seeking to understand and 
describe the phenomenon and those seeking to create improved experiences 
through innovation in system building or user interface design. At the 
workshop, participants will review the current state of research in this 
area, and discuss issues relevant to the social media question asking 
research community, such as how to create public data sets, standardize 
metrics and measures, and handle privacy and ethical issues. Following 
the workshop we hope that participants will join us in sharing our 
enthusiasm for recent developments in social media question asking 
research with a broader audience through contributions to an edited 
volume or journal special issue on this topic.

Position papers are due on November 16th. A more detailed workshop 
description and CFP are available at 
http://research.microsoft.com/cscw2013smqaworkshop.



This workshop is jointly organized by Microsoft Research (Meredith 
Ringel Morris, JaimeTeevan), Northwestern University (Darren Gergle, 
Brent Hecht), and the University of Michigan (Mark Ackerman, Lada 
Adamic, Nicole Ellison, Cliff Lampe).