The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and computational approaches are especially encouraged.
Disciplines
Computational linguistics/NLP
Text mining/data mining
Psychology
Sociology (including social network analysis)
Communication
Anthropology
Media studies
Visualization
Political science
Computational social science
HCI
Economics
Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models
Media
Weblogs, including comments
Social networking sites
Microblogs
Wikis (Wikipedia)
Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups
Community media sites (YouTube, Flickr) h2. Topics Include
Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media
Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on blogs and microblogs
Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction
Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
Social innovation and effecting change through social media
If you have stuff that might be suitable, get your abstracts in by Friday:
http://icwsm.org/2012/index.php
