Objectives

We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of social networks analysis and digital humanities. Online social networks and social media sites enable numerous users to collaboratively create online information by producing new content and by establishing new links between people, information, and services. At the same time, these users leave digital traces on the Web, which provide unparalleled research opportunities for studying questions related to sociology, psychology, behavioral science, or political and economic science. While the study of human digital traces has attracted attention from different communities, understanding human social behavior via non-invasive methods remains a challenging task and an open problem. Tackling this challenge requires new methods, instruments and techniques as well as an interdisciplinary effort from researchers across disciplines such as computer science, humanities, social sciences and others. This workshop seeks original submissions on either methods or practices at the crossroads of these various disciplines.

We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to:

• Studies of online communities
• Communities of practice, online participation
• Graph partitioning and community discovery
• Link prediction
• Location-aware social networks and mobility
• Expertise and trust in online social networks
• Crowdsourcing and social media
• Information diffusion in social networks
• Social influence
• Opinion formation in social networks
• Social bots and their role in shaping of public opinion
• Studies of human culture based on online social networks and encyclopediae, computational methods to assess human culture along different dimensions (such as language, food, music, literature etc.)
• Using social media to study psychological and social phenomena and corresponding methods to assess such phenomena via web-based investigations
• Biases in social media, such as population biases, channel bias, self-selection bias, etc. and computational methods for assessment and correction
• The study of limitations of tools used in digital humanities, extension of traditional source criticism into the development of systematic "tool criticism"
• Social and individual inequalities on the web, e.g. gender or race disparities, computational methods and instruments to assess and track inequalities
• Studies of political processes and dynamics on the web, such as elections, political unrest, grassroots movements
• Predictions with social media, e.g. stock markets, spread of language, culture, memes or diseases
• Longitudinal studies of social phenomena and social change on the web
• Computational methods to assess and improve social and/or individual well-being via the web
• Studies investigating the role and causal impact of algorithms in facilitating social interactions on the web

The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research that goes hopefully beyond the classic SNA research.

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Submission

Submissions: We solicit research papers (max. 8 pages) in the ACM conference paper style. Acceptance of the papers will be either as full (regular) or short/demo papers with the corresponding presentation slots. Papers accepted as full will be published in the ACM Digital Library and papers accepted as short/demo will be published in special online workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to the submission page. Please select "Social Network Analysis" as a track in EasyChair.

Submission category: innovative research ideas, preliminary results, system prototypes or industry showcases. Link or demo in attachment are preferred.

Submission guidelines: All submitted papers must

• be written in English;
• contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
• be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
• be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;

All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions.

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Important dates

• June 19th, 2017 Extended: July 7th, 2017 - Paper submission deadline
• July 17th, 2017 Extended: July 31th, 2017 - Notification to authors
• August 21st, 2017 - Camera-Ready Version
• October 11th/12th, 2017 - 10:30-17:00 - Workshop

All dates and times refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) time zone.

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Program (TBA)

Keynote Speaker - Luca Maria Aiello

Luca Maria Aiello is a Senior Research Scientist in the Social Dynamics group at Bell Labs in Cambridge, UK and Resarch Fellow of the ISI Foundation in Torino, Italy. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Torino in 2012 and he has been a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs for almost 5 years. He conducts interdisciplinary research in network science, computational social science, and urban informatics. He co-authored 50+ peer-reviewed papers and his work has been covered by more than 200 news articles published by prestigious news outlets worldwide including Wired, Wall Street Journal, and BBC. He was General Chair of SocInfo in 2014 and was appointed with several organizational roles in ICWSM, ACM Hypertext, ACM Multimedia, and UMAP. He is among the founding members of GoodCityLife.org, a global network of scientist with the goal of giving a good life to city dwellers.

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Committee

Workshop Chairs

• Christian Guetl (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
• Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
• Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
• Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna, Austria)

Program Committee (TBE)

• Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo - IN3 / UOC
• Kjetil Nørvåg - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Arkaitz Zubiaga - University of Warwick
• Mark Kibanov - University of Kassel
• Bin Guo - Institut Telecom SudParis
• Martin Atzmueller - Tilburg University
• Michael Granitzer - University of Passau
• Leonel Morgado - INESC TEC / Universidade Aberta
• Robin Burke - DePaul University
• Paolo Ceravolo - University of Milan
• Andreas Pester - CUAS
• Alvin Chin - BMW Group
• Sharon Hsiao - ASU
• Leo Ferres - UDD

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Venue

The workshop will take place at the Messe Congress Graz, Austria and will be held in conjunction with Iknow 2017. Further information of this location can be found on the Iknow website.

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Contact

If you have questions regarding the workshop, do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs.

• Christian Guetl - c.guetl(at)tugraz.at
• Denis Helic - dhelic(at)tugraz.at
• Elisabeth Lex - elisabeth.lex(at)tugraz.at
• Christoph Trattner - christoph.trattner(at)modul.ac.at