Announcement of Keynotes & Final Call for Papers: International Conference on Social Media & Society #SMSociety (July 11-13, 2016, London, UK)

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Attention Social Media Researchers! 

We are very excited to announce two distinguished Keynotes for this year's
International Conference on Social Media & Society (July 11-13, 2016,
London, UK):

 <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/about/staff/sjh3.page> Dr. Susan
Halford  - Professor and Director of the Web Science Institute at the
University of Southampton

 <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/helen-kennedy>
Dr. Helen Kennedy - Professor of Digital Society at the University of
Sheffield

SUBMIT TODAY!
Full papers and Work-in-Progress submissions are due next Friday, January
15. (To submit see http:// <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/>
socialmediaandsociety.org <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/>
/submit/ <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/>  )

All accepted full papers (5-10 pages) will be published in the ACM
Conference Proceedings (last year's acceptance rate was 40%). In addition,
all presenters will be invited to submit their extended work to two journal
special issues, which will be published in 2017:

.       American Behavioral Scientist <http://abs.sagepub.com/>  - published
by SAGE

.       Big Data  <http://bds.sagepub.com/> & Society - published by SAGE
(open access)

If you have any questions, please contact us via email at
ask@socialmediaandsociety.org or on Twitter at @SocMediaConf 

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2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee:

  Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada

  Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada

  Dhiraj Murthy & Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK