After a year of planning and preparations, it’s hard to believe that the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society is now officially part of the history. But what amazing three days they were. Now, in its 7th year, the 2016 Conference was held from July 11-13 at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. The conference was organized by the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University (Canada) and co-hosted by the Big Data & Society Journal (BD&S) along with the Centre for Creative & Social Technologies (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Thank you to all Volunteers, Attendees, Presenters, Program Committee, Partners, our keynotes, Dr. Susan Halford (Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, UK) and Dr. Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield, UK), and everyone who made this year's conference a huge success! Let’s do it again! Mark your calendar, the 2017 International Conference on Society Media & Society will be in Toronto on July 28-30, 2017. (CfP will be released later this fall.)
In case you missed the conference this year (or just want to relive some highlights), here is a list of online resources for you:
- 2016 ACM Conference Proceeding featuring 24 full papers
- 2016 SMSociety Special Theme papers in Big Data & Society (co-edited by A.Gruzd & J.Jacobson)
- 2016 SMSociety Special Issue in Information, Communication & Society (co-edited by A.Gruzd, J.Jacobson, B.Wellman, & P.Mai)
- Photo Moments from the Conference
- Live blogging by Axel Bruns
- Conference recap blog post by Mary Cavanagh:
- Social Data Through an Academic Lens by Jason Harris:
- Curated list of #SMSociety tweets by Bernadette Keefe:
~2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee
Anatoliy Gruzd, Philip Mai, Marc Esteve Del Valle, Ryerson University, Canada;
Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada;
Evelyn Ruppert, Dhiraj Murthy, Ville Takala, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK;
