[AISWorld] Announcement of Keynotes & 2nd Call for Papers: 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society #SMSociety (July 28-30, 2017, Toronto, Canada)

[Anatoliy Gruzd]

Dear Colleagues,



We are very pleased to announce two distinguished Keynotes for the 8th
International Conference on Social Media & Society (July 28-30, 2017,
Toronto, Canada):

   - *Lee Rainie* – Director, Pew Research Center's Internet &
   American Life Project <http://www.pewinternet.org/>, USA
   - *Ronald Deibert* – Professor of Political Science, and Director
of the Citizen
   Lab <http://www.citizenlab.org/> at the Munk School of Global Affairs,
   University of Toronto, Canada.



*SUBMIT TODAY*

We would also like to invite scholarly and original submissions that
broadly relate to the 2017 conference theme on “*Social Media for Social
Good or Evil*.”  We welcome both *quantitative* and *qualitative* work
which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of
the current and future trends in social media research. See the call for
proposals at
https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016/cfp-2017-international-conference-social-media-society/




*DEADLINES*

   - Workshops/ Technical Tutorials – *Due December 5, 2016*
   - Full and Work-in-progress (WIP) Papers – *Due January 16, 2017*
   - Posters – *Due March 6, 2017*



*PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES*

Full and WIP (short) papers presented  will be published in the conference
proceedings by *ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS)
<http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930971&CFID=847001369&CFTOKEN=15617273&preflayout=flat#prox>*
 and
will be available in the ACM Digital Library*.* All conference presenters
will be invited to submit their extended conference papers to a special
issue of the * Social Media + Society <http://sms.sagepub.com/>*
journal (*http://sms.sagepub.com/
<http://sms.sagepub.com/>*) published by SAGE.



*2017 #SMSociety **Organizing Committee: *

   - Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair
   - Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada – Conference Chair
   - Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair
   - Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA – Poster Chair
   - Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, UK  – WIP Chair
   - Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA – WIP Chair

*Advisory Board:*

   - William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA
   - Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
   - Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network, Canada

*Programme Committee**:*

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ask at socialmediaandsociety.org or on Twitter at @SocMediaConf
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