The International Conference on Social Media & Society is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 9th year, the 2018 conference is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark from July 18 to 20, 2018.
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
Jaigris HodsonPoster ChairAssociate Professor [Royal Roads University, Canada] | Canadian Science Policy Fellow [Dept. Environment and Climate Change, 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]
Ravi VatrapuHost ChairProfessor at the Department of Digitalization of the Copenhagen Business School; Professor at the Westerdals Oslo School of Arts Communication and Technology
Jeff HemsleyWork-in-Progress(WIP) Papers ChairAssistant Professor [iSchool, Syracuse University, USA]
K. Hazel KwonWork-in-Progress(WIP) Papers ChairAssistant Professor [Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, USA]
Anabel Quan-HaasePanel ChairProfessor of Information and Media Studies and Sociology [Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, Canada]
Luke SloanPanel ChairReader | Deputy Director [Social Data Science Lab, Cardiff University, UK]
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 Publications Team
Priya KumarCoordinator, Publications Team
Andrea KampenCopy-Editor, Publications Team
Carlisle KentCopy-Editor, Publications Team
Alyssa TorresGraphic Designer
Conference Program Committee
| Name | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Worrall | University of Alberta | Canada |
| Alicia Wanless | SecDev Foundation | Canada |
| Alton Chua | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| Anders Olof Larsson | Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology | Norway |
| Andra Siibak | University of Tartu | Estonia |
| Andrea Hunter | Concordia University | Canada |
| Ann Pegoraro | Laurentian University | Canada |
| Ataharul Chowdhury | University of Guelph | Canada |
| Axel Bruns | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
| Bree McEwan | DePaul University | USA |
| Brigitte Juanals | Aix-Marseille Université | France |
| Caroline Haythornthwaite | Syracuse University | USA |
| Christine Moser | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| Christoph Lutz | Norwegian Business School, Oslo | Norway |
| Daiji Hario | Setsunan University | Japan |
| David Marshall | Deakin University | Australia |
| David Nieborg | University of Toronto Scarborough | Canada |
| Deena Fottouh | McMaster University | Canada |
| Diane Pennington | University of Strathclyde | UK |
| Donna Smith | Ryerson University | Canada |
| Ebrahim Bagheri | Ryerson University | Canada |
| Emad Khazraee | Kent State University | USA |
| Esther Brainin | Ruppin Academic Center | Israel |
| Francesco Sinatora | George Washington University | USA |
| Frauke Zeller | Ryerson University | Canada |
| Halvdan Haugsbakken | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway |
| Harry Dyer | University of East Anglica (UEA) | UK |
| Heidi Julien | University at Buffalo | USA |
| Igor Kanovsky | Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel | Israel |
| Isabella Peters | ZBW - German National Library of Economics | Germany |
| Jacquie Burkell | University of Western Ontario | Canada |
| James Cook | University of Maine at Augusta | USA |
| Jean Gawron | San Diego State University | USA |
| Jean-Luc Minel | Université Paris Nanterre-CNRS | France |
| Jill Hopke | DePaul University | USA |
| Joanne McNeish | Ryerson University | Canada |
| John Bingham-Hall | University College London | UK |
| Jonathan Obar | York University | Canada |
| Ju-Sung Lee | Erasmus University Rotterdam | The Netherlands |
| Katrin Tiidenberg | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| Leanne Bowler | University of Pittsburgh | USA |
| Lina Gomez | Universidad del Este | Puerto Rico |
| Lisa Given | Swinburne University | Australia |
| Lu Xiao | Syracuse University | USA |
| Majid Khosravinik | Newcastle 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 |
| Michael Stefanone | University at Buffalo | USA |
| Ming-Hsiang Tsou | San Diego State University | USA |
| Nadia Caidi | University of Toronto | Canada |
| Patricia Rossini | Syracuse University | USA |
| Petr Lupac | Charles University | Czech Republic |
| Raquel Recuero | Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel) | Brazil |
| Renée Desjardins | University of Saint-Boniface | Canada |
| Seth Lewis | University of Oregon | USA |
| Dominic Yeo | Hong Kong Baptist University | Hong Kong |
| Vanessa Dennen | Florida State University | USA |
| Yimin Chen | University of Western Ontario | Canada |
| Zoetanya Sujon | Regent's University London | UK |
| Wesam Amer | Newcastle University | UK |