[Air-L] CFP: SoMNet 2014 Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media and Networks - May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

[Marc Smith]

SoMNeT 2014

*Third International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New
Media and Networks*
*(SoMNet 2014)*

*Call for Papers and Participation*

*As part of*
*The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and
Systems*
*(CTS 2014)*

*May 19-23, 2014*


*The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA*

*Submission Deadline: January 22, 2014*

*Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or
posters*


*SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES*
Social media, social computing, new media and networks have become major
areas of research, applications, and development in recent years.  The
adoption of social media and their applications have expanded in kind and
size to unprecedented levels and continue to grow at accelerated rates.
The creation and deployment of Social Media is one of the main forces
behind the evolution and expansion of the Internet, the Web, and mobile
media.  Social media account for the majority of Internet traffic while its
content comprises the greater part of the daily published multi media on
the Web.  These technologies have a profound impact on society and on
private life.  Furthermore, there is a great diversity in the communities
of people interested in social computing: researchers in computing,
communications, and social sciences; industrial practitioners; wide range
of businesses; software and online game vendors; web entrepreneurs; digital
government organizations; political analysts; educational institutions,
etc.

You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to, and attend the
International Symposium on Collaboration, Social  Computing, New Media, and
Networks (SoMNet 2014) to be held as part of CTS 2014 (
*http://cts2014.cisedu.info/* <http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/>) May 19-23, 2014
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.  The Symposium is to address, explore and
exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad
multi disciplinary field of social computing and new media.  Participation
is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in
all disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology,
statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies, …).

*The SoMNeT Symposium main themes include (but are not limited to) the
following:*

   - Social (media) Network Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization
   - Content/ Text Data Analysis AND Integration with Network Data
   - Computational/ Algorithmic Solutions and Datasets Related to Both of
   These Themes

*PAPER SUBMISSION*
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above
and other topics related to social computing, social networks and new
social media.  Submitted papers must not have been published or
simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submissions could be for full papers,
short papers, poster papers, or posters (please specify).  Submission
should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax
numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses.  Please, indicate clearly the
corresponding author(s) and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of
topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words.  The full manuscript
should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.  Additional
pages are allowed but will be charged additional fee.  Short papers (up to
4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to
http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home/posters<http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14/home/posters>
for posters submission details)  will also be accepted.  Please include
page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers
to provide helpful comments.

Authors are invited to submit a PDF copy of their manuscript to the
Symposium using the following link:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/14/users/upload.jsp.  In the form you fill out,
please make sure to indicate that the submission is for SoMNeT 2014
Symposium in the *Notes* field of the uploading form.   Otherwise, the
manuscript will go to the main track.  If the submission is for a *poster
paper*or *short paper*, indicate that as well on the manuscript and in the
form's *Notes* field.

Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the link above.  Each paper
will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Papers will be selected based on
their originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity, and
presentation.  Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the
authors to register and present the paper, if accepted.  Authors of
accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and
presented at the Symposium.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on
the CTS 2014 Conference web site.  It is our intent to have the proceedings
formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of
the conference.  The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE
Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the Symposium, please
contact the Symposium organizers.



*IMPORTANT DATES*
*Paper Submission Deadline: -------------------------- January 22, 2014*
*Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------ February 10, 2014*
*Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ------  February 28, 2014 *
*Conference Dates:  ------------------------------------  May 19 - 23, 2014*

*SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS*

*Marc A. Smith*
Connected Action Consulting Group
California, USA
Phone: +1 (425) 241-9105
Email:  marc at connectedaction.net<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=marc@connectedaction.net>

*Jana Diesner*
The iSchool (Graduate School of Library and Information Science)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, USA
Phone:  +1 (217) 244-3576
Email:    jdiesner at illinois.edu