The International Conference on Social Media & Society is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 8th year, the 2017 conference is being held in Toronto, Canada from July 28 to 30.
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]
Jeff HemsleyWork-in-Progress(WIP) Papers ChairAssistant Professor [iSchool, Syracuse University, USA]
K. Hazel KwonPoster ChairAssistant Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
Bernie HoganWork-in-Progress(WIP) Papers ChairResearch Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
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
2017 Conference Staff
Priya KumarCoordinator, Publications Team
Andrea KampenCopy-Editor, Publications Team
Carlisle KentCopy-Editor, Publications Team
Alyssa TorresGraphic Designer
Conference Program Committee
| Name | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Anabel Quan-Haase | University of Western Ontario | Canada |
| Anders Olof Larsson | University of Oslo | Norway |
| Andrea Hunter | Concordia University | Canada |
| Anita Greenhill | University of Manchester | UK |
| Ann Pegoraro | Laurentian University | Canada |
| Audrey Laplante | Université de Montréal | Canada |
| Axel Bruns | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
| Ayoung Yoon | Indiana University | USA |
| Bree McEwan | DePaul University | USA |
| Caroline Haythornthwaite | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| Christian Rapp | Zurich University of Applied Sciences | Switzerland |
| Christine Moser | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| Christoph Lutz | Norwegian Business School, Oslo | Norway |
| 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 |
| Ebrahim Bagheri | Ryerson University | Canada |
| Elizabeth Dubois | University of Ottawa | Canada |
| Emad Khazraee | University of Pennsylvania | USA |
| Esther Brainin | Ruppin Academic Center | Israel |
| Frank Kleemann | University of Duisburg-Essen | Germany |
| Frauke Zeller | Ryerson University | Canada |
| George Veletsianos | Royal Roads University | Canada |
| Guillaume Latzko-Toth | Université Laval | Canada |
| Halvdan Haugsbakken | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway |
| Han Woo Park | YeungNam University | Korea |
| Heidi Julien | University at Buffalo | USA |
| Helen Wang Hua | University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) | USA |
| Igor Kanovsky | Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel | Israel |
| Ilhem Allagui | Northwestern University in Qatar | Qatar |
| Ingmar Weber | Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University | Qatar |
| Isabella Peters | ZBW - German National Library of Economics | Germany |
| Jacquie Burkell | University of Western Ontario | Canada |
| Jaigris Hodson | Royal Roads University | Canada |
| James Cook | University of Maine at Augusta | USA |
| Jana Diesner | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | USA |
| Jean Gawron | San Diego State University | USA |
| Jeannette Sutton | University of Kentucky | USA |
| Jeffrey M Keefer | New York University / Pace University | USA |
| John Bingham-Hall | University College London | UK |
| Joshua Introne | Michigan State Spartans | USA |
| Karine Nahon | Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) / University of Washington | Israel/USA |
| K. Hazel Kwon | Arizona State University | USA |
| Keith Hampton | Rutgers University | USA |
| Kw Fu | University of Hong Kong | China |
| Luke Sloan | Cardiff University | UK |
| Maral Dadvar | Stuttgart Media University | Germany |
| Marc Esteve del Valle | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| Martin Hand | Queen's University | Canada |
| Mary Cavanagh | University of Ottawa | Canada |
| Merlyna Lim | Carleton University | Canada |
| Ming-Hsiang Tsou | San Diego State University | USA |
| Márcio Santos | UFMA - Universidade Federal do Maranhão | Brazil |
| Nadia Caidi | University of Toronto | Canada |
| Nicholas J Proferes | University of Maryland | USA |
| Olessia Koltsova | National Research University Higher School of Economics | Russia |
| Patricia Rossini | Syracuse University | USA |
| Raquel Recuero | Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel) | Brazil |
| Ravi Vatrapu | Copenhagen Business School | Denmark |
| Rob Procter | University of Warwick | UK |
| Rosa Borge | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | Spain |
| Seth Lewis | University of Minnesota | USA |
| Susan Halford | University of Southampton | UK |
| Tim Highfield | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
| Wenhong Chen | University of Texas at Austin | USA |
| Xiao Hu | University of Hong Kong | China |
| Yimin Chen | University of Western Ontario | Canada |
| Yunya (Céline) Song | Hong Kong Baptist University | Hong Kong, China |