[Sigtis-l] CFP: Special issue of Online Information Review on social media analytics

[Adam Worrall]

A call for papers has been posted for a special issue of Online Information Review on social media analytics. Papers are due by February 1st, 2015. The full call is available at http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=5712.

The issue seeks to “showcase cutting-edge research advances in social media analytics in order to provide a landscape of recent research progress and novel applications, techniques and strategies in analyzing online information posted on various social media platforms.” Potential topics, as listed in the call, include:

> - Novel applications of social media analytics
> - Novel techniques, methods and strategies for analyzing social media data
> - Social media analytics and business value
> - Social media analytics and privacy
> - Social media analytics and human behavior
> - Search in social networks and social media
> - Community detection and evolution
> - Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis, and topic detection)
> - Analysis of different forms of user-generated content in the online context
> - Social reputation and recommendation systems


Paper are due February 1st, 2015, after which a revision round will take place; revised papers accepted to the second round will be due April 30th. Papers should be submitted via the ScholarOne system in use by Online Information Review: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oir. Review the full call for further instructions and details on the special issue: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=5712. If you have questions, please contact special issue editors Wu He of Old Dominion University and Guandong Xu of the University of Technology, Sydney, via e-mail at whe at odu.edu and Guandong.Xu at uts.edu.au respectively. (Thanks to Rebecca Reynolds for sharing the call with SIG SI on Facebook!)

Adam Worrall, Ph.D.
Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG SI
Adjunct Professor, Florida State University
School of Information - Florida’s iSchool
adam at adamworrall.org  aworrall at fsu.edu
http://www.adamworrall.org