PLEAD 2012 - International Workshop on Politics, Elections and Data (PLEAD2012)

What is the role of the internet in politics and during campaigns and what is the role of large amounts of user data in all of this? In the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign the Democrats were far more successful than the Republicans in utilizing online media for mobilization, co-ordination and fundraising. For the first time, social media and the Internet played a fundamental role in political campaigns. However, technical research in this area has been surprisingly limited and fragmented. The goal of this workshop, taking place right before the U.S. presidential elections, is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of social network analysis, computational social science and political science, to share and discuss their ideas in a common forum; and to inspire further developments in this growing, fascinating field of computational political science.
Ingmar Weber (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Ana-Maria Popescu (Yahoo! Labs, USA)
Marco Pennacchiotti (Yahoo! Labs, USA)
http://research.yahoo.com/workshops/plead2012/