SoMNet 2016 - 5th International Symposium on Social Computing, New Media and Networks, and Collaboration (SoMNet 2016)

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 2016) to be held as part of CTS 2016 (http://cts2016.cisedu.info/) October 31 - November 04, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, 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, Credibility and Reputation in Social Networks
Identity in Online and 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, ...
Social Networks and Media for Public Use and Purposes
Social Media for Online and offline Communities
Culture and Cross-Culture in virtual communities and social networks
Visualization of Social Media Data
Social Media/Social Networks Analytics
Political Mobilization & Engagement
Opinion/Sentiment Mining and Analysis
Social Media and Health
Social Networks and Media for Services and Commerce and Business
Social Media and Collaborative Work and Actions
Business Applications of Social Networks
Social Settlements
Social Networking and Media for Learning and Education