PLEAD 2013 - International Workshop on Politics, Elections and Data

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 2012 U.S. presidential campaign the Democrats were again more successful than the Republicans in utilizing online media for mobilization, co-ordination, fundraising and micro- targeting. Social media and the Internet play a fundamental role in political campaigns. However, technical research in this area has been surprisingly limited and fragmented.
The goal of this workshop, held at CIKM 2013 in Burlingame/San Francisco, 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. The workshop will include Rayid Ghani, former Chief Scientist at Obama for America 2012 campaign, as a keynote speaker.
Organizers
Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ana-Maria Popescu, Research consulting, USA
Marco Pennacchiotti, Ebay Inc., USA
Worshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/plead2013/home