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===================================================================== the 6th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2016) at WWW 2016 http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu 11th Apr 2016 ===================================================================== The #Microposts2016 second call for late-breaking work and work in progress is to encourage participants to submit position papers and short reports on new and on-going research, provocative discussions about Micropost generation and (re)use. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- 2nd call for papers - Main & Social Sciences Tracks: rolling deadline up to ***18 Mar 2016*** Workshop: ***11 Apr 2016*** THEME: Big things come in small packages ------------------- Microposts – "information published on the Web that is small in size and requires minimal effort to publish" – remain a popular means for communicating information. Microposts include tweets; social network endorsement on Instagram; check-ins via Facebook and Foursquare, pins on Pinterest; links to brief, pre-recorded and streaming video via Snapchat and Meerkat. Microblogging apps for the ubiquitous smartphone and other small, personal devices, which support capturing photos and short videos, allow these to accompany text or serve in themselves as the Micropost. Services such as those provided by WhatsApp, Viber, Snapchat, LINE and Saya, piggybacking on SMS/MMS and augmented with social media features, are also growing in popularity, especially in emerging markets where the Internet is often accessible mainly via mobile networks. Individual Microposts typically focus on a single thought, message or theme, often written on the go or in the moment, as events transpire. Collectively, however, Microposts comprise a very large amount of heterogeneous data – a source of valued, collective intelligence about a range of topics that may be mined for a variety of end uses. The #Microposts workshops aim to continue to provide a forum to enable discussion across fields outside pure Computer Science, especially Computational Social Science, and hence, improve understanding of the social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; to assess different approaches to gleaning the information content. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- Papers will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the three areas below: MAKING SENSE/UNDERSTAND – focusing on the human in Micropost data generation and analysis, we encourage submissions that look at understanding how situation and context drive individual and collective generation of Microposts, whether targeted at the general public, a specific person or other entity, e.g. a ruling government or a cause. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary work and that driven by research in Social & Computational Science and Information and Web Sciences, that lead to deeper understanding of Micropost content, and how this content influences the contribution of Micropost data to, among others: - Collective awareness - Education & citizen empowerment, data & citizen journalism - Civil action, media & politics - Digital & media literacy regarding Micropost data - Political and polemical aspects of Microposts - Conflicts and crises - Ethics, legal and privacy issues - Psychological profiling and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interaction - Cultural, generational and regional differences in access and use of Microposts - Humans as sensors - Impact of effortless posting and wearable devices on communication - Cultural, generational and regional differences in access and use - Inequality in access and use of digital, social media - Emerging social and communication dynamics resulting from Micropost-based services - Critical reflections on big data - Linguistics & Microposts DISCOVER – The extraction of information content from Microposts and subsequent analysis contribute to the discovery of patterns and trends in the data. This information is key to further knowledge discovery and application, using a number of approaches including: - Emergent semantics - Data mining from Microposts - Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis - Network analysis and community detection - Influence detection and social contagion modelling - Prediction approaches - Linking Microposts into the Web of Linked Data (i.e. entity extraction and URI disambiguation) APPLY – Applications papers and case studies describing systems that make use of Micropost data. This includes tools developed to support the generation and sharing of Microposts using a variety of devices and media, piggybacking where necessary on other communication methods, including SMS/MMS and even radio. Areas of interest include: - Collective intelligence, user profiling, personalisation & recommendation - Business analytics & market intelligence with particular attention to big data - Event & topic detection and tendency tracking - Microposts as a second screen to television, large screens and stages at public events - Geo-localised, Micropost-based services - Public consensus & citizen participation - Security, emergency response & health - Linking social and physical signals for, e.g., crowd tracking - Identification and use of geo-location information embedded in or attached to Microposts - Increasing importance of multilingual and non-English Microposts WORKSHOP STRUCTURE ------------------- We aim to start with a keynote address, followed by regular paper presentations, short presentations for position papers and late-breaking work and brief overviews of selected submissions to the Challenge. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. The workshop will close with the presentation of awards. SUBMISSIONS - LBW -------------------- Late-breaking work & Work in Progress: 2-4 pages Position papers: 2-4 pages Demos: 3 pages Posters: 2 pages All written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 author-selected keywords. Where a submission includes additional material submission this should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents. Submission is via EasyChair, at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2016 Each submission will be peer reviewed. We aim to publish the #Microposts2016 proceedings as a single volume containing all tracks, via CEUR. The same publication conditions however apply as for other workshop proceedings included in the WWW conference companion: "Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference." Note this caveat does not apply to late-breaking work or extended abstracts submitted to the special Social Sciences track summarising or discussing previously published work or presenting position statements. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Rolling deadline: up to ***18 Mar 2016*** Camera-ready (hard) deadline (Main & Social Sciences tracks): 01 Apr 2016 (all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time) Workshop - 11 Apr 2016 (registration open to all) CONTACT ------- E-mail: microposts2016@easychair.org Twitter persona: @Microposts2016 Twitter hashtag: #Microposts2016 W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts ORGANISERS ----------- A. Elizabeth Cano, KMi, The Open University, UK Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, University of Pennsylvania, USA Danica Radovanović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Aba-Sah Dadzie, KMi, The Open University, UK ADVISORY COMMITTEE & PUBLICITY ------------------------------- Milan Stankovic, Sépage & STIH / Université Paris-Sorbonne, France Program Committee ------------------ Nikolaos Aletras, Amazon, UK Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy Julie Birkholz, CHEGG, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Marco A. Casanova, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Óscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Guillaume Erétéo, Vigiglobe, France Miriam Fernandez, KMi, The Open University, UK Lucie Flekova, TU Darmstadt, Germany Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Mathieu Lacage, Alcméon, France Maria Liakata, Warwick University, UK Vasileios Lampos, University College London, UK Yelena Mejova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar José M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico Fabrizio Orlandi, University of Bonn, Germany Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil Harald Sack, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH, Austria Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK Andrea Varga, The University of Sheffield, UK Svitlana Volkova, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK Wei Xu, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK (COMPUTATIONAL) SOCIAL SCIENCES TRACK --------------------------------------- CHAIR: Katrin Weller, GESIS, Germany Program Committee ----------------------------------------- Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Julie Birkholz, CHEGG, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Jordan Carpenter, University of Pennsylvania, USA A. Seza Doğruöz, Tilburg University, Netherlands Fabio Giglietto, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Athina Karatzogianni, University of Leicester, UK José M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico Raquel Recuero, Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil Luca Rossi, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE: -------------------------------- CHAIRS: Giuseppe Rizzo, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy Marieke van Erp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Program Committee -------------------------------- Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy David Corney, Signal Media, UK Grégoire Burel, KMi, Open University, UK Milan Dojchinovski, Leipzig University, Germany / CTU in Prague, Czech Republic Guillaume Erétéo, Vigiglobe, France Anna Lisa Gentile, The University of Sheffield, UK José M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil Giles Reger, The University of Manchester, UK Irina Temnikova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Victoria Uren, Aston University, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOP SPONSORS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Best Paper - Main Track Award: £500 sponsored by the MK:Smart project ( http://www.mksmart.org ) Best Paper - Social Science Track Award: €300 sponsored by GESIS, Germany ( http://www.gesis.org ) Best Submission - NEEL Challenge Award sponsored by FREME ( http://www.freme-project.eu ) WWBP - the World Well-Being Project ( http://wwbp.org ) EDSA - the European Data Science Academy ( http://edsa-project.eu ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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