Announcing the Inaugural #SMSociety Founders’ Emerging Scholar Award: This year at the #SMSociety Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, we are proud to introduce the Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai #SMSociety Founders’ Emerging Scholar Award, a new award recognizing an exceptional student researcher whose paper demonstrates originality, rigour, and outstanding promise for shaping the future of social media research. Named … Continue Reading →
Announcement of 2017 Keynotes
We are very pleased to announce two distinguished Keynotes for the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (July 28-30, 2017, Toronto, Canada): Lee Rainie – Director, Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, USA Ronald Deibert – Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University … Continue Reading →
CfP: 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) – Toronto, Canada – July 28-30, 2017
2017 #SMSociety Theme: Social Media for Social Good or Evil CALL FOR PROPOSALS Our online behaviour is far from virtual–it extends our offline lives. Much of social media research has identified the positive opportunities of using social media; for example, how people use social media to form support groups online, participate in … Continue Reading →
Highlights from #SMSociety 2016
After a year of planning and preparations, it’s hard to believe that the 2016 Conference is now officially part of the history. But what amazing three days they were. Thank you to all Volunteers, Attendees, Presenters, Program Committee, Partners and everyone who made this year’s conference a huge success! Let’s … Continue Reading →
Join Us for the 2017 SMSociety in Toronto, July 28-30!
2017 #SMSociety Theme: Social Media for Social Good or Evil CALL FOR PROPOSALS Our online behaviour is far from virtual–it extends our offline lives. Much social media research has identified the positive opportunities of using social media; for example, how people use social media to form support groups online, participate in political … Continue Reading →
Congratulations to all of our award winners at the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society
Congratulations to all of our award winners at the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society. Outstanding Leadership Award: Evelyn Ruppert The 2016 Outstanding Leadership Award is presented to Evelyn Ruppert in Honour of Evelyn’s Outstanding Service to the Social Media & Society Community, leadership of founding the Big Data & Society journal … Continue Reading →

