[AISWorld] Call For Papers -- Social Media and Social Computing; Infosys Lab Briefings

[San Murugesan]

*Call for Papers *

*Infosys Labs Briefings *



*Social Media and Social Computing:
Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges *



*Summary Due: 24th November 2012 *

*Article due: 1st February 2013 *



The rise of social media and its use has been phenomenal, and yet to reach
its plateau. Social media is now overshadowing traditional media and
communication and is substantially transforming the way organizations,
communities, and individuals interact, gather information and perform their
routines. Encompassing a wide variety of information technologies, it
connects not only users but also other objects in ways that were
unimaginable till a few years ago. It also spans a large area of activities
that differ in content, purpose, and user profiles.



Reports on real world events are propagated much faster within the network
of social sensors and social media continues to play a substantial role in
supporting collective actions. The ubiquitous availability of portable
devices that are always connected to the Internet, and easy-to-use social
network applications make it possible for us to get connected to - and
continuously contribute to - massively distributed online information.



Social media brings a host of opportunities as well as presents some unique
challenges. Social media is being harnessed innovatively in business,
education, healthcare, government, law enforcement and more. The next
generation of social media will be more sophisticated with rich features
and innovative interfaces and will enable collaboration and
interoperability. We yet don’t know the full potential of social media and
how we can exploit its untapped potential. We also need new models of
computing, called social computing - approaches and methodologies to
process vast array of information scattered in social media and to
satisfactorily address some of the growing concerns on social media
applications. Further, effective mining, analysing, aggregating and
exploiting information sourced from social media is an open and exciting
challenge. To better exploit the power of social media, several technical,
organisational, societal issues and challenges needs to be better
understood and addressed.



Social media and social computing is the focus of the upcoming 2013 issue
of *Infosys Labs Briefings, *a peer-reviewed international journal
published by Infosys. The journal has a large global targeted readership of
over 10,000 which include senior IT executives, CXO’s, decision-makers,
academics, industry peers and analysts.



This special issue will provide a comprehensive coverage of ongoing and
potential future developments and new perspectives on this hot topic of
increasing significance. For this issue, we solicit articles from
researchers and practitioners from industry on the following and other
related topics:

·         Foundations of social media

·         Social media platforms, including their reliability and
performance

·         Gleaning value from social media and how to best integrate it
into business, education, healthcare, government, homeland security, and
more

·         Enterprise social media applications; social media marketing

·         Context awareness and personalisation in social media applications

·         Social business

·         Social software

·         Design and development harnessing social media

·         Crowd sensing and crowd sourcing

·         Social knowledge extraction and aggregation

·         Security, privacy and trust issues and risks in social media

·         Social analytics and mining; social media discovery

·         Social media monitoring and visualization

·         Social semantic technologies and applications

·         Social informatics

·         Multilingual social media

·         Social network of things (SNT)

·         Social media leveraging smart (mobile) devices, Internet of
Things (IoT) and other new platforms.

·         Social media quality - accountability and responsibility

·         Social media in India, China and other Emerging Markets

·         Societal, political, educational or business impacts of social
media; social media culture

·         The future of social media and social computing

·         Case studies and experience reports



Feature articles should be no longer than 5000 words and have no more than
20 references (with tables and figures counting as 300 words each).
Illustrations, Tables, videos are highly encouraged. Spotlight (short)
articles presenting case studies, trends and perspectives are also welcome.



Those interested to contribute an article for this special issue are
invited to send an extended summary of their proposed article for initial
consideration to the Guest Editor, Professor San Murugesan <
san1 at internode.net> by *24 November 2012*. The summary (about two pages
long) should include: Title; author(s) name, affiliation and email address;
scope, main contributions and significance of the article, an article
outline and a brief author(s)’ bio(s) highlighting their expertise in the
area. Final manuscript will be due by 1 February 2013. All submissions will
be peer-reviewed for acceptance and accepted articles will be copy edited
for clarity and to confirm to journal’s style.



*For further information, please contact:*

*Professor San Murugesan *

Guest Editor

Director, BRITE Professional Services

Adjunct Professor, University of Western Sydney

san1 at internode.net



*Yogesh Dandawate*

Deputy Editor

Infosys Labs Briefings

Infosys Labs

yogesh_dandawate at infosys.com
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