Lots of last year’s presentations are captured as video clips. Since VideoLectures.net is one of the sponsors of the conference, I am hopeful that they will provide a video archive of this year’s sessions, too.

Papers are solicited in areas including (but not limited to) the following:

• Psychological, personality-based, sociological, or ethnographic studies of social media, or the relationship between social media and mainstream media.
• Analysis of patterns and/or spreading of influence between bloggers; tools for assessing trust and reputation; social network analysis (e.g.,community identification, expertise discovery, etc), as applied to social media; and analysis of trends and time series in social media.
• Methods for ranking bloggers and/or blogs by user relevance, or ranking web pages based on blogs; and techniques for crawling, spidering and indexing social media.
• Human-computer interaction studies of tools for using social media; novel ways of applying or interacting with social media; and visualization of social media or social networks.
• Application of computational linguistics to of social media (e.g. entity or fact extraction, discourse analysis, summarization, sentiment analysis, etc); probabilistic modeling of social media; and identification of demographic information (e.g., gender, age, etc) in social media.
• Semantic web approaches to managing socially constructed knowledge or collaborative creation of structured knowledge.

The data set is made available by Spinn3r and can be requested here. I am looking forward to the kinds of research that will be conducted based on the data. A list of last year’s papers can be seen here.