[Air-L] Summer Social WebShop 2012 @UMCP

[Alan Neustadtl]

Summer Social WebShop 2012 @UMCP

I am happy to announce that the faculty at the University of Maryland
in sociology, computer science and the iSchool along with the Social
Media Research Foundation are hosting an NSF sponsored workshop on
technology mediated social participation (TMSP) with an emphasis on
social networks and social media.

The workshop is open to US doctoral students in a variety of
disciplines (social sciences, computer science, information science,
etc.) and includes a stipend to support participation.

The Summer Social Webshop (@Webshop_UMD) is 4-day interdisciplinary
workshop for US graduate students (August 21-24, 2012) at the
University of Maryland, College Park organized by leading researchers
for graduate students at US universities studying social-networking
tools, blogs and microblogs, user-generated content sites, discussion
groups, problem reporting, recommendation systems, and other social
media.

For more information and application go to:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/webshop2012
Application deadline for best consideration: June 8, 2012

Please pass this following announcement along to your students and
other groups that may be interested.  This short listserv length
announcement describes our workshop, and the link in that announcement
leads to more details:

We are also using twitter to spread this announcement.  You can see
the original tweet (for retweeting) at http://bit.ly/Mc2PZk and the
original text is:

US Grad student applications wanted for #Webshop2012 #UMD #HCIL #NSF
#SMRF #TMSP #SNA #Socialmedia Aug 21-24 .http://bit.ly/KXmiYd

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,
Alan Neustadtl