[ddj] HICSS Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving: Call for papers

Tue Apr 8 11:13:30 UTC 2014

Call for Papers:  HICSS Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving 
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_48/Tracks/DSM/DSMCitizen.pdf

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48
January 5-8, 2015, Grand Hyatt, Kauai, Hawaii

PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm

Hashtag: #hicss_sja		

The exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in announcing breaking news events more rapidly than traditional media, has changed the journalistic landscape: social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media as a form of direct reportage. Social media content now forms a significant part of the digital content generated every day, and provides a platform for voices that would not reach the broader public through traditional journalistic media alone. In this emerging environment, citizen microblogs and other user- generated content constitute an important part of history and popular memory, in particular when attempting to capture significant events and the varied perspectives that accompany these events.

The flow of citizen generated reporting through social media is ephemeral and disordered; it quickly becomes inaccessible if not captured and stored in some way. This is in contrast to traditional journalism, which has well-developed archival practices, enabling the news production life cycle to reuse and rediscover content. This new landscape calls for technologies and methodologies to 1) rapidly and efficiently capture, filter and verify content in a way that generates immediate value for journalistic purposes; and 2) properly annotate and archive this information for longer-term preservation, access and reuse in the news life-cycle (e.g. for contextualization, investigative reporting or comprehensive storytelling). If not preserved, or if preserved without careful attention to subsequent access and discoverability, there is a risk of losing the diversity this rich social narrative contributes to traditional news media. 

This multidisciplinary minitrack is part of Digital and Social Media track and is focused on the areas of citizen/social journalism and social media archiving, which pose distinct, yet complementary, research challenges. By pairing these topics in one multidisciplinary minitrack we hope to stimulate an exchange of ideas between multiple domains of research and industry, including news media, digital archiving and preservation, social network analysis, semantic web and linked data, communication studies and cultural studies. To this end we welcome papers in either of these two areas or papers that address their intersection.

In this minitrack we are interested in addressing a variety of research questions from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. For example, how we can best utilize social media for news production? What technologies can we use for breaking news detection, filtering, aggregation and contextualization? How can we assess the veracity of social media content and sources? What moral, legal, and ethical issues arise when professional journalists use social media as a source? How can we organize, interpret, and retain a record of social media around news events? What does this record contribute to our larger understanding of news, and the writing of news? How can rigorous archiving and preservation of social media help researchers and journalists in their work on social movements, citizen engagement, political events, and network formation?

Keeping the application domains of the minitrack in mind, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

The role of user generated content in the news production life-cycle

Veracity, trust and provenance of social media sources and content
Approaches to archiving social media content
Event and topic detection and clustering

Information and entity extraction

Social network and community analysis
Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies for archival, discovery and enrichment of social media content
Opinion mining and sentiment analysis

Story curation, contextualisation and recommendation

Ethical challenges in archiving and broadcasting social media content

For more information please visit minitrack web page on http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_48/Tracks/DSM/DSMCitizen.pdf.
You can also follow minitrack updates on http://hujo.deri.ie/hicss-sja/.

Co-chairs				

Bahareh Heravi, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly known as DERI), Bahareh.Heravi at deri.org, @Bahareh360 (Primary Contact) 	

Natalie Harrower, Digital Repository of Ireland,  n.harrower at ria.ie,  @natalieharrower

Stefan Decker, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly known as DERI), Stefan.Decker at deri.org, @Stefanjdecker

ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm

HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation are included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library.

HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar.
Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating.

How to Submit a Paper:  Follow Author Instructions on the conference web site:  http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm

HICSS papers must contain original material.  They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.  All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. Abstracts are optional, but recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content.

Submit a paper to only one Minitrack.  If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack, then either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author or other chairs. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination, and/or seek informal opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting.

Do not author or co-author more than 5 papers.  This means that an individual may be listed as author or co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers.  Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance on August 15.

IMPORTANT DATES

June 15, 2014  -   SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be without author names.

Aug 15, 2014   - Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. It is very important that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. Therefore, all travel guarantees – including visa or your organization’s fiscal funding procedures – should begin immediately.  Make sure your server accepts the review system address https://precisionconference.com/~hicss.

Sep 15, 2014  - SUBMIT FINAL PAPER.  Add author names to your paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication to the site provided in your Acceptance Notice.  (This URL is not public knowledge.)

Oct 1, 2014   - EARLY REGISTRATION FEE DEADLINE. At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the Proceedings.  Fees will increase on Oct 2 and Dec 2.

Oct 15, 2014   - Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office.

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Dr. Bahareh R. Heravi
Group Leader, Digital Humanities and Journalism (http://hujo.deri.ie/)
INSIGHT @NUIG (DERI)
Tel: +353 91 495339
Web: http://bahareh.net/
@Bahareh360
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