SoMNet 2015 - Fourth International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks (SoMNet 2015)

Social media, social computing, new media and networks have become major areas of research, applications, and development in recent years. The adoption of social media and their applications have expanded in kind and size to unprecedented levels and continue to grow at accelerated rates. The creation and deployment of Social Media is one of the main forces behind the evolution and expansion of the Internet, the Web, and mobile media. Social media account for the majority of Internet traffic while its content comprises the greater part of the daily published multi media on the Web. These technologies have a profound impact on society and on private life. Furthermore, there is a great diversity in the communities of people interested in social computing: researchers in computing, communications, and social sciences; industrial practitioners; wide range of businesses; software and online game vendors; web entrepreneurs; digital government organizations; political analysts; educational institutions, etc.
You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to, and attend the International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media, and Networks (SoMNet 2015) to be held as part of CTS 2015 (http://cts2015.cisedu.info/) June 01-05, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The SoMNeT Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multi disciplinary field of social computing and new media. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies, …).
The SoMNeT Symposium main themes include (but are not limited to) the following:
Social (media) Network Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization;
Content/ Text Data Analysis AND Integration with Network Data; and
Computational/ Algorithmic Solutions and Datasets Related to Both of These Themes
Mobility, Devices, and Services in Social Networks and Media
Online Social Networks and their impact on social and psychological behavior
Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Social Networks
Deviance and Crime in Social Networks
Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Media and Networks
Emerging and Evolving Communities Online: Senior Citizens, Gender, SIGs, adolescent, children,