[Siguse-l] CFP: Social Media Analytics from Online Information Review

[He, Wu]

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Special issue call for papers from Online Information Review



Social Media Analytics



What is the special issue about?

Guest edited by Dr. Wu He of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA  and Dr. Guandong Xu of University of Technology Sydney, Australia.



As social media analytics is a young and emerging interdisciplinary research topic, limited studies have been devoted to unveiling the value, impact and implications of social media analytics for the management and use of online information. Accordingly, the primary goal of this special issue of Online Information Review is 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 analysing online information posted on various social media platforms. This special issue solicits high-quality innovative papers related to social media analytics to unveiling the value, impact and implications of social media analytics for the management and use of online information.



Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

•    Novel applications of social media analytics
•    Novel techniques, methods and strategies for analysing 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



Please feel free to contact either Guest Editor if you have questions or queries about the issue or submissions. The full CFP is available at http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=5712

Proposed schedule

•    Papers due: 1 March 2015
•    First round decisions made: 15 May 2015
•    Revised manuscript due: 15 July 2015
•    Final decisions made: 15 August 2015
•    Publication: OIR  Vol 39, no 7 (2015)



Submissions guidance
•Every submission must spell out the implications of findings in the paper for online information as distinct from implications for e-commerce, education, etc. (These implications should be mentioned in the introduction, discussion and conclusion sections of your paper.) Papers which focus on findings for specific sectors without adequate attention to the online environment will not be accepted.
•Please read the publication style guidelines before submitting your paper
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Rejections

OIR generally rejects the following type of submissions
•Papers that require mathematics to develop, test or analyse concepts or findings (these require non-mathematical explanations for the readership of OIR)
•Questionnaire-based studies based on convenience samples that expand previous studies only moderately (these should focus on a new topic, and argue convincingly that convenience sampling is necessary, to be acceptable)
•TAM or other standard model-based submissions applied in a formulaic way to a limited population and which do not significantly advance our knowledge of the topic



More information about the topic of the Special Issue

Social media have become ubiquitous and are playing an increasingly critical role in society. The wide use of social media platforms has generated massive user-generated contents (UGCs). To leverage these UGCs, it is important for organizations to develop capability of collecting, storing and analyzing social media data for the purpose of harvesting information and actionable knowledge for decision making and forecasting. As one consequence of these developments, social media analytics has emerged as an important area of study. Social media analytics is concerned with using advanced informatics tools and analytics techniques to collect, monitor, and analyze social media data to extract useful patterns and intelligence. Therefore, the development of effective and efficient analytics techniques for social media analytics becomes essential.  To conduct social media analytics, data mining, text analysis and sentiment analysis techniques are frequently adopted. Recently there has been strong interest in the power of social media analytics in creating new value, supporting decision-making and enhancing competitive advantage.   As social media analytics is an emerging interdisciplinary research topic, limited studies have been devoted to unveiling the value, impact and implications of social media analytics for the management and use of online information.

About the Journal

Online Information Review is an international, double blind peer-reviewed, ISI-listed (2013 Impact Factor is 1.443) journal devoted to research in the broad field of online information in academic, government, corporate, scientific and commercial contexts. Within this broad framework the journal seeks to provide a forum for experts from a range of information-related disciplines, including information science, information technology, information management, knowledge management and related social sciences.

‘Online information’ encompasses any information that is stored and viewed in electronic form, from e-books to databases, document management systems and any other information-bearing artifacts in electronic format.

OIR focuses on issues relating to online systems, services and resources, and their use, with a particular focus on the processes and procedures involved in creating, managing, utilizing, disseminating and repackaging online information (including social, political and ethical aspects).
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