From wahmed1 at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Feb 9 10:27:01 2018 From: wahmed1 at sheffield.ac.uk (Wasim Ahmed) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 15:27:01 +0000 Subject: [Sig-sm] Short survey for social media panel for ASIS&T annual meeting 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada Message-ID: Dear all, We plan to submit a panel for the ASIS&T annual meeting in 2018. We have devised a survey in order for all to share their ideas for a topic: https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/421b957 We would be extremely grateful if you could complete this survey and share it among your network. Thank you. Kind regards, Wasim. -- -- Wasim Ahmed PhD student - *Information School * University of Sheffield Member of: @NSMNSS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arkaitz at zubiaga.org Fri Feb 9 15:20:45 2018 From: arkaitz at zubiaga.org (Arkaitz Zubiaga) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 20:20:45 +0000 Subject: [Sig-sm] CfP: OIR Special Issue on Social Media Mining for Journalism Message-ID: --------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------------ ----------- Online Information Review (OIR) Special Issue on "Social Media Mining for Journalism" http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/news_ story.htm?id=7570 [[ Impact Factor: 1.534 ]] **Submission Deadline: February 28, 2018** ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------- The exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in capturing and announcing breaking news events more rapidly than traditional media, has changed the journalistic landscape: social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media as a form of direct reportage. This brings along new opportunities for newsrooms and journalists by providing new means for newsgathering through access to a wealth of citizen reportage and updates about current affairs, as well as an additional showcase for news dissemination. As well as being a big opportunity and having changed the day-to-day practices in the newsrooms, social media has introduced a number of challenges when it comes to news gathering, verification, production, reporting and dissemination. These include real time monitoring of streams, event detection, noise filtering, contextualisation, source and content verification,fact checking, annotation and archiving . The development of more advanced algorithms and tools for journalists requires not only furthering research in computational techniques, but also engaging more closely with journalists to understand how they work, what problems they are facing when using social media, and how their day-to-day workflows can be improved. In this special issue we are looking for contributions that address a variety of research questions from both theoretical and practical perspectives. For example, how can we best utilise social media for news production? What technologies can we use for breaking news detection, filtering, aggregation and contextualisation? How can we assess the veracity of social media content and sources? What moral, legal, and ethical issues arise when professional journalists use social media as a source? How can we organise, interpret, and retain a record of social media around news events? What does this record contribute to our larger understanding of news, and the writing of news? TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Newsgathering from social media ** Citizen journalism ** Detection of eyewitnesses and topic experts ** Event detection in social media ** Social media content curation ** Fact-checking and verification of sources and content ** Credibility assessment ** Social media and fake news * Social media news analytics ** Social media analytics for news ** Analysis of news diffusion in social media ** Visualisation of news and social media ** Social media to measure public opinion on news ** Analysis of the effect of fake news on public opinion * Data and Computational journalism ** Robot journalism with social media as a source ** Algorithmic accountability and transparency ** Data driven storytelling ** Data driven investigative journalism * Ethics and digital citizenship ** Ethical issues concerning social media newsgathering and eyewitness media ** Social media news audiences and network gatekeeping ** Social media and censorship SUBMISSION ------------------- Submissions should comply with the journal author guidelines: http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_ guidelines.htm?id=oir Submissions should be made through ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oir GUEST EDITORS ------------------------ * Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK * Bahareh R. Heravi, University College Dublin, Ireland * Jisun An and Haewoon Kwak, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Papers Due: February 28, 2018 * First? ?round? ?decisions? ?made:? ?25 April?, ?2018 * Revised? ?manuscripts? ?due:? ?23 May?, ?2018 * Final ?decisions? ?made:? 27 June?, ?2018 * Publication Date: Late 2018 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Katrin.Weller at gesis.org Sun Feb 18 18:52:52 2018 From: Katrin.Weller at gesis.org (Weller, Katrin) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:52:52 +0000 Subject: [Sig-sm] Challenges of Social Media Data for Bibliometrics. Special Track at STI Conference 2018. Deadline April 1. Message-ID: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D101833C2FD7@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> Apologies for cross-posting ---- Dear colleagues, as part of the STI Conference 2018 (http://sti2018.cwts.nl) we will be organizing a special track on the "Challenges of Social Media Data for Bibliometrics" (#sti18challenge). This specialized track focuses on the ongoing challenges for using data from social media platforms and from third party aggregators as sources for research metrics and scientometric indicators. These challenges include but are not limited to: --> platform-based restrictions in accessing social media data and potential biases resulting from limited access (also: biases introduced by data aggregators) --> black boxes, hidden algorithms, and lack of information about collection processes and context affecting the use of social media data and data aggregators -->lack of understanding of user activities (e.g. motivations to retweet, like, share) and user groups in academic contexts -->incomplete data (e.g. due to missing DOIs or identifiers not tracked by aggregators) and noise (e.g.due to bot-activity) We invite the following types of submissions: a) original research studying the quality of social media data and data aggregators for measuring scholarly communication b) short (hands-on) introductions and best practices for using data from one or more specific social media platforms or aggregators. Please submit your work as short papers (max 3,000 words) until April 1, 2018. See http://sti2018.cwts.nl/submissions for templates, EasyChair access and additional submission information. Looking forward to your submissions Katrin Weller, Astrid Orth, Isabella Peters -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23rd Science and Technology Indicators Conference (STI 2018) September 12-14, 2018 Leiden, The Netherlands. Website: http://sti2018.cwts.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2018 - Early-bird registration: June 15 - July 15, 2018 - Conference: September 12 - 14, 2018 --- Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Dept. 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If you don't know your username and password, contact Stephan Addo at saddo at asist.org. In addition to providing a considerably more accessible and user-centric platform for discussion, the new site also allows you to freely share documents and resources, make announcements, and schedule events. If you are not currently a member of ASIS&T but would like to become a member in order to remain engaged with this SIG and take advantage of the many other benefits of ASIS&T membership, please contact Stephan Addo (saddo at asist.org) to discuss your options. Traffic on this listserv will be suspended tomorrow, 22 February, so I encourage all of you to visit the new community site, set up an online profile, and start engaging with your colleagues. Warm regards, Lydia Middleton Executive Director ASIS&T -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition to providing a considerably more accessible and user-centric platform for discussion, the new site also allows you to freely share documents and resources, make announcements, and schedule events. If you are not currently a member of ASIS&T but would like to become a member in order to remain engaged with this SIG and take advantage of the many other benefits of ASIS&T membership, please contact Stephan Addo (saddo at asist.org) to discuss your options. Traffic on this listserv will be suspended Tuesday, 27 February, so I encourage all of you to visit the new community site, set up an online profile, and start engaging with your colleagues. Warm regards, Lydia Middleton Executive Director ASIS&T -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arkaitz at zubiaga.org Mon Feb 26 05:41:58 2018 From: arkaitz at zubiaga.org (Arkaitz Zubiaga) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:41:58 +0000 Subject: [Sig-sm] CfP: Extended, New Deadline 15th March - OIR Special Issue on Social Media Mining for Journalism Message-ID: --------------------------- Call for Papers ----------------------------------------- Online Information Review (OIR) Special Issue on "Social Media Mining for Journalism" http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/news_story.htm?id=7570 [[ Impact Factor: 1.534 ]] **Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2018** [extended] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------- The exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in capturing and announcing breaking news events more rapidly than traditional media, has changed the journalistic landscape: social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media as a form of direct reportage. This brings along new opportunities for newsrooms and journalists by providing new means for newsgathering through access to a wealth of citizen reportage and updates about current affairs, as well as an additional showcase for news dissemination. As well as being a big opportunity and having changed the day-to-day practices in the newsrooms, social media has introduced a number of challenges when it comes to news gathering, verification, production, reporting and dissemination. These include real time monitoring of streams, event detection, noise filtering, contextualisation, source and content verification,fact checking, annotation and archiving . The development of more advanced algorithms and tools for journalists requires not only furthering research in computational techniques, but also engaging more closely with journalists to understand how they work, what problems they are facing when using social media, and how their day-to-day workflows can be improved. In this special issue we are looking for contributions that address a variety of research questions from both theoretical and practical perspectives. For example, how can we best utilise social media for news production? What technologies can we use for breaking news detection, filtering, aggregation and contextualisation? How can we assess the veracity of social media content and sources? What moral, legal, and ethical issues arise when professional journalists use social media as a source? How can we organise, interpret, and retain a record of social media around news events? What does this record contribute to our larger understanding of news, and the writing of news? TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Newsgathering from social media ** Citizen journalism ** Detection of eyewitnesses and topic experts ** Event detection in social media ** Social media content curation ** Fact-checking and verification of sources and content ** Credibility assessment ** Social media and fake news * Social media news analytics ** Social media analytics for news ** Analysis of news diffusion in social media ** Visualisation of news and social media ** Social media to measure public opinion on news ** Analysis of the effect of fake news on public opinion * Data and Computational journalism ** Robot journalism with social media as a source ** Algorithmic accountability and transparency ** Data driven storytelling ** Data driven investigative journalism * Ethics and digital citizenship ** Ethical issues concerning social media newsgathering and eyewitness media ** Social media news audiences and network gatekeeping ** Social media and censorship SUBMISSION ------------------- Submissions should comply with the journal author guidelines: http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=oir Submissions should be made through ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oir GUEST EDITORS ------------------------ * Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK * Bahareh R. Heravi, University College Dublin, Ireland * Jisun An and Haewoon Kwak, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Papers Due: 15 March, 2018 -- extended * First? ?round? ?decisions? ?made:? ?15 May?, ?2018 * Revised? ?manuscripts? ?due:? ?10 July, ?2018 * Final ?decisions? ?made:? 1 September, ?2018 * Publication Date: Late 2018 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: