[Air-L] CFP conference on social media

[Кольцова Елена Юрьевна]

Dear colleagues,

The Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher school of Economics, Russia is pleased to announce the 2nd call for papers for its second conference on the Internet and social media to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 18-19, 2014. We welcome works from a variety of disciplines on a wide range of Internet-related topics, while the special focus of the conference this year is “Social media and social movements”.

Keynote speakers
Robert Ackland, Doctor at Australian National University, Lead the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks project, which is known internationally for the VOSON software for hyperlink network analysis. (confirmed)
Maria Petrova, Professor at Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Research Director at the Center for New Media and Society  (confirmed)
Keynote of practice: (to be announced)

International program committee:
Sandra Gonzales-Bailon, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Earl, Center for Information Technology and Society, University of Arizona
Sam Greene, King's Russia Institute, King's College London
Peng Hwa Ang, Singapore Internet Research Center
Ivan Klimov, Center for New Media and Society, New Economic School, Moscow
Benjamin Lind, Department of sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Nikita Basov, Centre for German and European Studies, St. Petersburg State University 
Peter Meylakhs, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Olessia Koltsova, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Svetlana Bodrunova, Saint-Petersburg State University
Sergey Nikolenko, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Sergey Koltsov, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

Organizing committee:
Peter Meylakhs
Olessia Koltsova
Nora Kirkizh
Galina Selivanova
Daria Yudenkova

Requirements for submission could be found at the Registration page.
There is no registration fee.

Deadline for submissions is May 20, 2014.
Notifications of acceptance: June 16, 2014
Extended abstracts of three pages (to be published on the conference website) should be submitted by August 16, 2014

The conference website: http://linisevents.hse.ru/
Home page of Laboratory for Internet Studies: http://linis.hse.ru/


Yours sincerely,
Olessia Koltsova
Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies
National Research University Higher School of Economics
room 322, 46 Rimskogo-Korsakova St.
190008, St.Petersburg, Russia
Phone: +7 (812) 677-9452
www.linis.hse.ru 
E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru
http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747