2019 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

Philip Mai

Co-Director of the Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Anatoliy Gruzd

Professor, Canada Research Chair and Director of Research at the Social Media Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Raquel Recuero

Associate Professor [Communication and Linguistics Department, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil]

Priya Kumar

Research Fellow [Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada]

Jaigris Hodson

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

Jenna Jacobson

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

Jeff Hemsley

Assistant Professor [iSchool, Syracuse University, USA]

K. Hazel Kwon

Assistant Professor [Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, USA]

Anabel Quan-Haase

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

Reader | Deputy Director [Social Data Science Lab, Cardiff University, UK]

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2019 Program Committee