Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2016)

(Computational) Social Science Track

Motivation

Theme: Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages

The #Microposts workshops aim to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to debate current, leading edge effort toward analysing and understanding Microposts - "information published on the Web that is small in size and requires minimal effort to publish. Microposts include tweets (using plain text or with embedded links and objects); social network endorsement using Instagram hearts; check-ins via Facebook and Foursquare, pins on Pinterest; links to brief, pre-recorded and streaming video via Snapchat and Meerkat. Although individual Microposts are small and therefore typically focus on a single thought, message or theme, collectively they provide a rich source of information and opinion about a range of topics. Among others, the (Computational) Social Science track will examine the human in Micropost data generation and analysis; we encourage submissions that look at understanding how situation and context, and social and cultural phenomena and language drive individual and collective publication of Microposts, whether targeted at the general public, a specific person or other entity, e.g. a ruling government or a cause. The workshop aims to continue to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of the generation and reuse of Micropost data, and discuss application of the knowledge thus derived in a variety of contexts, including crowd movement, mass communication, and its influence on citizen empowerment and the formatino of opinion and sentiment.

Topics of Interest

The (Computational) Social Sciences track at #Microposts2016 will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to:

• Collective awareness
• Education & citizen empowerment, data journalism
• Digital & media literacy regarding Micropost data
• Civil action, media & politics
• Political and polemical aspects of Microposts
• Conflicts and crises


• Ethics, legal and privacy issues
• Psychological profiles and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interactions
• Cultural phenomena & memes
• Social media and wellbeing
• 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

Additionally, the topics for the main track include areas of interest to the Social Sciences community, regarding obtaining understanding about, discovering the knowledge content of and application of Micropost data.

Award Sponsor

A prize of € 300, generously sponsored by GESIS, will be awarded to the best submission. GESIS, the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, is the largest service and infrastructure institution for the Social Sciences in Germany. By teaming up with GESIS to support the Social Sciences track, the #Microposts workshop organisers wish to highlight the role of interdisciplinary approaches for better understanding of the users behind social media and Microposts.

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