2nd Annual International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
March 30 – April 2, 2008
Seattle, WA, USA
I post this to expose us to some of the lines of inquiry available when studying blogging and social media, the latter we have been focusing on in discussion and which a few of you are researching for end-of-course presentations. Cool stuff. Wish I could go.
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media provides a forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to present and discuss new research, applications, thoughts and ideas that are shaping the future of social media analysis. Social media content now accounts for the majority of content published daily on the web. As the space evolves, academic and industrial practitioners find themselves at a key point for collaborating on research, implementation and deployment of a wide range of analyses and
applications.
The conference consists of a half day of tutorials (Sunday, March 30, 2008) and two and half days of an exciting technical program (Monday, March 31 – April 2nd). We will also be hosting two evening receptions (Monday and Tuesday evenings).
Papers to be presented
* Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
* Link-PLSA-LDA: A new unsupervised model for topics and influence of blogs
* Polling the Blogosphere: a Rule-Based Approach to Belief Classification
* Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation
* Space Planning for Online Community
* A Large-Scale Study of MySpace: Observations and Implications for Online Social Networks
* Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community
* What Elements of an Online Social Networking Profile Predict Target-Rater Agreement in Personality?
* Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television
* Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles
* The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the Blogosphere
* A Social Network Based Approach to Personalized Recommendation of Participatory Media Content
* The Psychology of Word Use in Depression Forums in English and in Spanish
* Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes
* Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style Conversations
* On TREC Blog Track
* Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents
* BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles
* International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs
* Finding the Influencers and the Consumer Insights
