ICWSM 2015 - Ninth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

For ICWSM-15, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on successes in previous years, ICWSM-15 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in addition to the main conference.
DISCIPLINES
Computational approaches to social media research including
Natural language processing
Text / data mining
Machine learning
Image / multimedia processing
Graphics and visualization
Distributed computing
Graph theory
Human-computer interaction
Social science approaches to social media research including
Psychology
Sociology and social network analysis
Communication
Political science
Economics
Anthropology
Media studies and journalism
Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies
MEDIA
Weblogs (posts, comments, and/or social shares)
Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn)
Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr)
Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia)
Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post)
Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups
Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram)
Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers)
User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com)
Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest)
Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare)
TOPICS INCLUDE
Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media
Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on weblogs
Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery
Collaborative filtering
Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior
Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting
Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health
New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
Social innovation and effecting change through social media
Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior
Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media
Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media