About

The International Conference on Social Media & Society is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 10th year, the 2019 conference is being held in Toronto, Canada from July 19 to 21, 2019.

From its inception, the conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, the conference provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers.

The conference’s intensive three-day program will feature full papers, work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters. The wide-ranging topics in social media showcase research from scholars working in many fields including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology.

Organizing Committee

Anatoliy Gruzd
Conference Chair

Canada Research Chair | Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists | Associate Professor [Schl of Info. Tech. Management] | Director of Research [Social Media Lab, Read More.
Priya Kumar
Conference Chair

Research Fellow [Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada]
Philip Mai, M.A., J.D.
Conference Chair

Director of Business & Communications [Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management] | Manager of Academic Communications, [University Relations, Ryerson University, Canada]
Jenna Jacobson
Full Papers Chair

Assistant Professor [Retail Management, Ted Rogers School of Management] | Research Fellow [Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada]
Raquel Recuero
Full Papers Chair

Associate Professor [Communication and Linguistics Department, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil]
Jeff Hemsley
Work-in-Progress(WIP) Papers Chair

Assistant Professor [iSchool, Syracuse University, USA]
K. Hazel Kwon
Work-in-Progress(WIP) Papers Chair

Assistant Professor [Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, USA]
Anabel Quan-Haase
Panel Chair

Professor of Information and Media Studies and Sociology [Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, Canada]
Luke Sloan
Panel Chair

Reader | Deputy Director [Social Data Science Lab, Cardiff University, UK]
Jaigris Hodson
Poster Chair

Associate Professor [Royal Roads University, Canada] | Canadian Science Policy Fellow [Dept. Environment and Climate Change, Canada]
Hanako Smith
Volunteer Coordinator

Research Assistant [Ryerson University, Canada]
Alicia Wanless
Social Media Ambassador

PhD Student at King’s College London, UK

Advisory Board

Caroline Haythornthwaite
Advisory Board Member

Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Susan Halford
Advisory Board Member

Professor at the University of Bristol, UK | President, British Sociological Association 2018-20
Zizi Papacharissi
Advisory Board Member

Professor and Head, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Editor, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media; Editor, Social Media and Society
Barry Wellman
Advisory Board Member

INSNA Founder, Director – NetLab Network; Distinguished Visiting Scholar – Social Media Lab, Ryerson University, Canada; Distinguished Senior Advisor – University Learning Academy

2019 Program Committee

Name	Organization	Country
Wasim Ahmed	Northumbria University	United Kingdom
Paul Alpar	Philipps-Universität Marburg	Germany
Ahmed Al-Rawi	Simon Fraser University	Canada
Fred Amblard	IRIT - University Toulouse 1 Capitole	France
Marco Bastos	City, University of London	United Kingdom
Anja Bechmann	Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies	Denmark
Michael Beier	Swiss Institute for Entrepreneurship	Switzerland
Valerie Belair-Gagnon	University of Minnesota	United States
Rahime Belen Sağlam	Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University	Turkey
Anat Ben-David	Open University of Israel	Israel
Chris Birchall	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
Balázs Bodó	IVIR/University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
Mark Boons	Erasmus University	Netherlands
Esther Brainin	Ruppin Academic Center Israel	Israel
Axel Bruns	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
Jacquie Burkell	University of Western Ontario	Canada
Mark Carrigan	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
Mary Cavanagh	University of Ottawa	Canada
Michael Chan	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Hsuan-Ting Chen	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Yimin Chen	University of Western Ontario	Canada
Ataharul Chowdhury	University of Guelph	Canada
Alton Chua	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
James Cook	University of Maine at Augusta	United States
Tl Cowan	University of Toronto	Canada
Maral Dadvar	Stuttgart Media University	Germany
Huw Davies	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
Vanessa Dennen	Florida State University	United States
Liz Dowthwaite	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
Stefanie Duguay	Concordia University	Canada
Harry Dyer	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom
Marc Esteve	University of Groningen	Netherlands
Sarah Florini	Arizona State University	United States
Deena Abul-Fottouh	Ryerson University	Canada
Robert Gehl	The University of Utah	United States
Maria Gintova	Ryerson University	Canada
Sarah Gilbert	The University of Maryland	United States
Lina Gomez	Universitat Jaume I de Castelló	United States
Jacob Groshek	Boston University	United States
Anatoliy Gruzd	Ryerson University	Canada
Rosanna Guadagno	Stanford University	United States
Sharath Chandra Guntuku	University of Pennsylvania	Singapore
Margeret Hall	University of Nebraska Omaha	United States
Martin Hand	Queen's University	Canada
Halvdan Haugsbakken	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
Zack Hayat	Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)	Israel
Libby Hemphill	University of Michigan	United States
Jeff Hemsley	Syracuse University	United States
Ana-Maria Herman	Ryerson University	Canada
Andrew Herman	Wilfrid Laurier University	Canada
Ángel Hernández-García	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	Spain
Jaigris Hodson	Roya Roads University	Canada
Jill Hopke	DePaul University	United States
Jeremy Hunsinger	Wilfrid Laurier University	Canada
Andrea Hunter	Concordia University	Canada
Sam Jackson	Syracuse University	United States
Jenna Jacobson	Ryerson University	Canada
Kokil Jaidka	University of Pennsylvania	United States
Katy Jordan	The Open University	United Kingdom
Brigitte Juanals	Aix-Marseille Université, EJCAM	France
Heidi Julien	University at Buffalo	United States
Igor Kanovsky	Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel	Israel
Herminder Kaur	Middlesex University	United Kingdom
Kazuhiro Kazama	Wakayama University	Japan
Irena Knezevic	Carleton University	Canada
Kevin Koidl	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
Dewashree Koirala	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark
Ammina Kothari	Rochester Institute of Technology	United States
Leni Krsova	Charles University	Czechia
Priya Kumar	Ryerson University	Canada
Hazel Kwon	Arizona State University	United States
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen	University of Helsinki	Finland
Anders Olof Larsson	Westerdals Oslo ACT	Norway
Katie Lebel	Ryerson University	Canada
Chei Sian Lee	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
Ju-Sung Lee	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
Koen Leurs	Utrecht University	Netherlands
M.E. Luka	University of Toronto	Canada
Christoph Lutz	BI Norwegian Business School	Norway
Philip Mai	Ryerson University	Canada
P. David Marshall	Deakin University	Australia
Lourdes Martinez	San Diego State University	United States
Michael Mäs	ETH Zurich	Netherlands
Adrienne Massanari	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States
Paweł Matuszewski	Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University	Poland
Zachary McDowell	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States
Bree Mcewan	DePaul University	United States
Joanne Mcneish	Ted Rogers School of Business	Canada
Bozena Mierzejewska	Fordham University	United States
Jean-Luc Minel	Université Paris Nanterre	France
Milan Miric	University of Southern California	United States
Nicole Muscanell	The Pennsylvania State University	United States
Matti Nelimarkka	Aalto & Uni. Helsinki	Finland
Jonathan Obar	York University	Canada
Mathieu O'Neil	University of Canberra	Australia
Michael Opgenhaffen	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
Suay Ozkula	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
Xinru Page	Bentley University	United States
Ann Pegoraro	Laurentian University	Canada
Jean-Christophe Plantin	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
Fabrizio Poltronieri	De Montfort University	United Kingdom
Pablo Porten-Cheé	Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft / Freie Universität Berlin	Germany
Hemant Purohit	George Mason University	United States
Anabel Quan-Haase	Western University	Cameroon
Diane Rasmussen Pennington	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom
Chamil Rathnayake	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom
Raquel Recuero	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Brazil
Luca Rossi	IT University of Copenhagen	Denmark
Sonya Sachdeva	USDA Forest Service	United States
Ruby Q. Saine	University of South Florida	United States
Susana Salgado	University of Lisbon	Portugal
Bilal Salih	Curtin University	Australia
Rose Marie Santini	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
Saiph Savage	West Virginia University	United States
Marta Severo	Université Paris Nanterre	France
Francesco Sinatora	The George Washington University	United States
Luke Sloan	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
Kevin Smets	Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Universiteit Antwerpen	Belgium
Donna Smith	Ryerson University	Canada
Hanako Smith	Ryerson University	Canada
Marc Smith	Connected Action Consulting Group	United States
Michael A. Stefanone	University at Buffalo	United States
Lisa Sugiura	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom
Zoetanya Sujon	University of the Arts London	United Kingdom
Lukasz Szulc	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
Jacqui Taylor	Bournemouth University	United Kingdom
Ella Taylor-Smith	Edinburgh Napier University	United Kingdom
Ksenia Tsyganova	Saint Petersburg University	Russia
Cristian Vaccari	Loughborough University	United Kingdom
Ravi Vatrapu	Copenhagen Business School & Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology	Denmark
Xinran Wang	University of Missouri	United States
Alexandra Weilenmann	Univesity of Gothenburg	Sweden
Katrin Weller	GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences	Germany
John Wihbey	Northeastern University	United States
Adam Worrall	University of Alberta	Canada
Lu Xiao	University of Western Ontario	Canada
Tien Ee Dominic Yeo	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong
Xenia Zeiler	University of Helsinki	Finland
Nick Yin Zhang	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong
Arkaitz Zubiaga	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom