9th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors - Rende, Italy - 2-5 September 2024
Held in conjunction with the 2024 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
Onsite and online event
9th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors - Rende, Italy - 2-5 September 2024
Held in conjunction with the 2024 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
Onsite and online event
Nowadays Social media platforms represent freely-accessible information networks allowing registered and unregistered members to read, share and broadcast posts, different in format and size, referring to a potentially-unlimited range of topics, by also exploiting the immediateness of handy smart devices. This workshop wants to stress the vision of these powerful communication channels as social sensors, where each user reacts in real time to the underlying reality by providing her own interpretation of the reality that needs to be analysed, understood and interpreted. Technologies on this connectivity may also provide automatic or semi-automatic applications for information detection and integration, offering a sideway to the existing authoritative information media and the information reported by the surrounding community.
Université Paris 8, France
Department of Computer Science – University of Turin, Italy
Department of Computer Science – University of Turin, Italy
To be announced..
Nowadays, online social media platforms have become the most popular communication system all over the world. In fact, due to the accessibility and the public of these platforms, users tend to shift from traditional communication tools (such as traditional web sites) to these social services. For example, 68 percent of U.S. adults get news on social media in 2018, while in 2012, only 49 percent reported seeing news on social media. Billions of messages, in many different formats, are appearing daily in these services such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. The authors of these messages share content about any aspect of their life (public or private), exchanging opinions on a variety of topics and creating and discussing a wide range of events.
Companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have unlocked new ways for people to connect, curate, and consume and also see the surrounding reality. Social Media have changed and continue to change how we interact with the web - how content is distributed, discovered, and delivered. They provide inexpensive communication medium that allows anyone to quickly reach and interact with many other users, modifying their point of view and even their interpretation of the facts. Consequently, in these platforms anyone can publish content and anyone interested in the content can obtain it, representing a transformative revolution in our society. These aspects make social media services the most powerful sensor for any possible interpretation of reality, by also bringing into question the researchers in defining what reality means. The aim of this workshop is to ask researchers to enter such view, by studying how social media can be used in a real-time scenario to detect events and their interpretations.
In light of this, we stress the importance of recognizing this real-time sensor role of Social Media and propose a research venue to discuss about it. We encourage the submission from both academia and industry. We seek the participation of both industry and the public sector in the PC Contributions can be submitted as full, short and demo papers, referring to both mature applications and proof of concepts.
Social Media Analytics Social Network Analysis
Topics and Trends Modeling
Topics and Trends Extraction
Data Mining on Social Media data
Social Media Ontology Learning
Big Data and Social Media
Social Media as Social Sensors
Network neutrality
Cultural Analysis of Social Media
Information Retrieval and Social Media
Natural Language Processing
Hate Speech Detection
Fake News Detection
User Interfaces
Visualization of Social Media data
Community Detection
Social Media applications
Privacy and Social Media
Paper submission: June 15th, 2024
Notification to authors: July 15th, 2024
Camera-ready: July 30th, 2024
Workshop date: September 2-5, 2024
We welcome original research papers that present novel research ideas and we encourage submissions of greenhouse work, which present early stages of cutting-edge research and development. Position papers regarding work on the beginning, demo, and industry papers are also welcome.
Papers submitted should be at most 8 pages long for full research paper and 5 pages for short papers (position and research-in-progress papers). Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages using the IEEE two-column template. We also solicit short papers with a maximum length of 4 pages
Papers must be submitted before deadline via EasyChair here
The first edition was held in conjuction with the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media in Cyprus in September 2015
M. De Choudhury: "Social Media for Mental Illness Risk Assessment, Prevention and Support"
C. Ellwein, B. Noller: "Social Media Mining: Impact of the Business Model and Privacy Settings"
P. Singh Ludu: "Inferring Latent Attributes of an Indian Twitter User using Celebrities and Class Influencers"
R. Kikas, M. Dumas, A. Saabas: "Explaining International Migration in the Skype Network: The Role of Social Network Features"
The second edition was held in conjunction with the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Portoroz, May 2016
E. Di Rosa, A. Durante: "App2Check: a Machine Learning-based System for Sentiment Analysis of App Reviews in Italian Language"
T. Kreutz, M. Nissim: "Catching Events in the Twitter Stream: A Showcase of Student Projects"
C. Colella: "Distrusting Science on Communication Platforms: Socio-anthropological Aspects of the Science-Society Dialectic within a Phytosanitary Emergency"
A. Ruggeri, G. Boella: "Gibsonian Modeling of Users in Social Networks"
G. Siragusa: "Place as Topics: Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Topics from Social Networks Data"
D. Bell, D. Fried, L. Huangfu, M. Surdeanu, S. Kobourov: "Challenges for using social media for early detection of T2DM"
L. Vignaroli, C. Schifanella, K. S. Candan, R. Pensa, M. L. Sapino: ""
The third edition was held in conjuction with the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media in Prague in July 2017
L. Christiansen, B. Mobasher, R. Burke: "Using Uncertain Graphs to Automatically Generate Event Flows from News Stories"
S. Houser, C. B. Congdon, D. Santoro, J. Hochman: "Wandering Words: Tracing Changes inWords Used by Teacher Tweeters Over Time"
P. Martins, M. Junior, F. Benevenuto, J. Almeida: "The Emergence of Crowdsourcing among Pokemon Go Players"
D. Küçük: "Stance Detection in Turkish Tweets"
R. G. Pensa, C. Schifanella, L. Vignaroli: "Event-driven TV Programs Web Community Exploration"
M. Mondal: "Double-edged Swords: The Good and the Bad of Privacy and Anonymity in Social Media"
M. Ozer: "Three Facets of Online Political Networks: Communities, Antagonisms and Controversial Issues"
R. J. Sethi: "Fact-Checking via Structured Discussions in Virtual Communities"
The 4th edition was held in conjuction with The 15th European Semantic Web Conference in Crete in June 2018
R. Batista-Navarro, M. Sharmina, R. Heeks, R. Gibson, K. Malik, V. Ikoro, G. Abercrombie, M. Everett: "Novel Socio-politico-economic Applications of Social Media Analytics"
G. Siragusa, V. Leone: "Such a wonderful Place: extracting sense of place from Twitter"
R. La Grassa, D. Taibi, D. Ognibene: "A data collection architecture for monitoring second order followers of political leaders"
E. Demidova: "Towards Cross-Lingual Event-Centric Information Spaces"
The 5th edition was held in conjuction with the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media in Prague in July 2019
L. Vassio: "Human Behaviour on the Web: Evolution, Interactions and Exploitation"
S.Mishra, J.Diesner: "Capturing signals of enthusiasm and support for social causes on Twitter"
J.Hauffa, G.Groh: "A Comparative Temporal Analysis of User-Content-Interaction in Social Media"
G.Poghosyan: "Addressing Information Overload through Text Mining across News and Social Media Streams"
A.Manoel de Lima Neto, J.P.Clarindo, F.Coutinho: "Towards democratizing social media data analysis and visualization using SoMDA"
A.Sales : "Media Bias Characterization in Brazilian Presidential Electio"
The 6th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors was held in conjunction with The Web Conference 2020
Ahmet Yiğitalp Tulga: “Why are non-terrorist area citizens afraid of global terrorism?”
Shogo Matsuno, Sakae Mizuki, Takeshi Sakaki: "Improved advertisement targeting via fine-grained location prediction using Twitter"
Wenjie Zhou, Zhe Yang Zhou: "E-sports Report path and mode: the case on China Youth Online"
Prithviraj Pramanik, Tamal Mondal, Subrata Nandi, Mousumi Saha: “AirCalypse: Can Twitter help in Urban Air Quality Measurement and Who are the Influential Users?”
Desheng Zhang (Invited talk): “Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Cities”
Saiph Savage (Invited talk): “Citizens as More Than Sensors, Citizens as Agents for Change"
The 7th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors was held in conjunction with Hypertext 2022
Sabrina Villata and Federica Cena: “Towards a Cross-Domain Context-Aware Recommender of Optimal Experiences”
Sayar Ghosh Roy: "On Proactive Sentence Specific Popularity Forecasting"
Julia Warnken and Swapna Gokhale: "Classifying Anti-Mask Tweets into Misclassification vs. Rejection: A Year-Long Study"
Kheireddine Abainia, Kenza Kara and Tassadit Hamouni: “A New Corpus and Lexicon for Offensive Tamazight Language Detection”
Michele Lanotte and Giovanni Siragusa: “Analysis and Visualization of the Sense Of Place from Twitter Data”
The 8th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors was held in conjunction with ASONAM 2023
Laura Ventrice and Luigi Di Caro: "Enriching Wikipedia Texts through Geographic Information Extraction"
Franziska Goll and Karsten Huffstadt : "Social Media Usage Behavior - Does a break for impulse control between the stimulus to open a social media app and the actual response to open the app reduce the total time spent using a social media app?""
Carmela Comito: "Exploring COVID-19 Discourse: Analyzing Sentiments in Twitter Topics"
Benjamin Shultz: "An Entity-Aware Approach to Logical Fallacy Detection in Kremlin Social Media Content"
Youcef Benkhedda, Peng Xiao and Walid Magdy: "Emoji are Effective Predictors of User’s Demographics"