The International Conference on Social Media & Society is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 7th year, the 2016 conference is being held in London, UK from July 11 to 13.
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.
Conference Organizing Committee
Philip MaiConference ChairCo-Director of the Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Anatoliy GruzdConference ChairProfessor, Canada Research Chair and Director of Research at the Social Media Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Jenna JacobsonFull Papers ChairAssistant Professor [Retail Management, Ted Rogers School of Management] | Research Fellow [Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada]
Dr. Evelyn RuppertHost Co-ChairProfessor, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr. Dhiraj MurthyHost Co-ChairReader, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr. Marc Esteve Del VallePosters Track ChairPostdoc, Social Media Lab, Ryerson University
Ville TakalaUK Host Committee ChairPhD Candidate in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Nick LinVolunteer and Marketing Coordinator
Conference Advisory Board
Caroline HaythornthwaiteAdvisory Board Member, 2018-2020Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Susan HalfordAdvisory Board Member, 2017-2019Professor at the University of Bristol, UK | President, British Sociological Association 2018-20
Zizi PapacharissiAdvisory Board Member, 2016-19Professor and Head, Dept. of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Editor, Social Media+Society
Barry WellmanAdvisory Board Member, 2016-19INSNA Founder, Director – NetLab Network
William H. DuttonAdvisory Board Member, 2016-2018Professor of Media and Information, Director Quello Center, Michigan State University, USA; Founding Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, UK; Professor Emeritus at the Annenberg School at USC, USA
Conference Program Committee (Tentative)
| Name | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Anabel Quan-Haase | University of Western Ontario | Canada |
| Anders Olof Larsson | University of Oslo | Norway |
| Andra Siibak | University of Tartu | Estonia |
| Andrea Hunter | Concordia University | Canada |
| Anita Greenhill | University of Manchester | UK |
| Axel Bruns | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
| Caroline Haythornthwaite | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| Christian Rapp | Zurich University of Applied Sciences | Switzerland |
| Christine Moser | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| Clément Levallois | EMLYON Business School | France |
| Daiji Hario | Setsunan University | Japan |
| Daniel Kreiss | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | USA |
| Diane Rasmussen Pennington | University of Strathclyde | UK |
| Donna Smith | Ryerson University | Canada |
| Chandana Unnithan | Victoria University | Australia |
| Ebrahim Bagheri | Ryerson University | Canada |
| Esther Brainin | Ruppin Academic Center | Israel |
| Emad Khazraee | University of Pennsylvania | USA |
| Frank Kleemann | University of Duisburg-Essen | Germany |
| Gregor Petric | University of Ljubljana | Slovenia |
| Halvdan Haugsbakken | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway |
| Han Woo Park | YeungNam University | Korea |
| Heidi Julien | University at Buffalo | USA |
| Igor Kanovsky | Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel | Israel |
| Ilhem Allagui | Northwestern University in Qatar | Qatar |
| Isabella Peters | ZBW - German National Library of Economics | Germany |
| Jacquie Burkell | University of Western Ontario | Canada |
| Jake Wallis | Charles Sturt University | Australia |
| James Cook | University of Maine at Augusta | USA |
| Jana Diesner | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | USA |
| Jeffrey M Keefer | New York University / Pace University | USA |
| Jennifer Earl | University of Arizona | USA |
| John Bingham-Hall | University College London | UK |
| K. Hazel Kwon | Arizona State University | USA |
| Keith Hampton | Rutgers University | USA |
| Kw Fu | University of Hong Kong | China |
| Luca Giuliano | Università Sapienza di Roma | Italy |
| Márcio Santos | UFMA - Universidade Federal do Maranhão | Brazil |
| Mary Cavanagh | University of Ottawa | Canada |
| Mary Francoli | Carleton University | Canada |
| Mike Ananny | University of Southern California | USA |
| Ming-Hsiang Tsou | San Diego State University | USA |
| Nadia Caidi | University of Toronto | Canada |
| Olessia Koltsova | National Research University Higher School of Economics | Russia |
| Peter Burnap | Cardiff University | UK |
| Petr Lupac | Charles University in Prague | Czech Republic |
| Raquel Recuero | Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel) | Brazil |
| Rob Procter | University of Warwick | UK |
| Rosa Borge | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | Spain |
| Seth Lewis | University of Minnesota | USA |
| Soroush Vosoughi | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA |
| Tim Highfield | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
| William Housley | Cardiff University | UK |
| Wenhong Chen | University of Texas at Austin | USA |
| Xiao Hu | University of Hong Kong | China |
| Yimin Chen | University of Western Ontario | Canada |