Social Media Conferences and Workshops

ICWSM was a great hit! And now there are a growing number of conferences (WWW 08 social networks and Web 2.0)  and workshops (DEBSM) for social media research. This is fantastic for the community as a whole: as more people are excited about working in this area, we can bet there will be some significant advances in research and improve our understanding of online communities and social media content. What I particularly love is the fact that Social Media research is an exciting interplay of computer science, social science, psychology and other related fields.

I decided to maintain a list of upcoming conference deadlines and venues for social media research. With a little help from the community, I will try and keep this list up-to-date and accurate. Here is an initial list of upcoming venues for the next few months, while I gather and organize all the deadlines in Google Calendar or something.

• The First International Workshop on Data Semantics in Social Computing
  Systems (DiSCo `08) [http://www.deg.byu.edu/ding/workshop/disco08.html]
• International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN 2008)
  http://www.softcomputing.net/~csn/
• The First Workshop on Information Retrieval for Advertising
  Collocated with SIGIR 2008
  http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ira2008/
• AND08: Second Workshop on Analytics for Noisy
  Unstructured Text Data http://and2008workshop.googlepages.com/
• Workshop on Urban, Community, and Social Applications of Networked
  Sensing Systems http://sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/urbansensing/
• Search in Social Media (SSM 2008)
  A workshop held in conjunction with CIKM 2008
  http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/
• Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the Web 2.0 (WBBTMine'08)
  http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/wbbtmine2008/
• The 2nd International Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNAKDD 2008)
   http://workshops.socialnetworkanalysis.info/SNAKDD2008/
• [Update] Special Session on Mining of Social Media @ SAMT 2008 http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/index.php?page=calls_papers

Please comment below or email me if you know of any other venues and I shall make sure to add them to this list. Hope to see you at the next conference/workshop!

Comments

[Maria Grineva]

Akshay,

you can also add this one:
Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web (http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/KASW08/)
(I am going there with a paper on mining Wikipedia for start tags clustering ;))

[Maria Grineva]

-- misspelled : paper on mining Wikipedia for smart tags clustering

[Akshay Java]

Thanks for the pointer Maria. This event looks really interesting. I would appreciate if you could share your notes with us on this blog? Perhaps you would consider writing a guest post and sharing your experience?
Thanks
Akshay