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/his own interpretation or opinion. Automatic techniques and methodologies applied on this channels may provide interesting insights on social media phenomena rather than useful applications, offering a "sideway" to the existing authoritative information media and the information reported by the surrounding community.

Website: http://linc.iut.univ-paris8.fr/sideways/


Important dates:

- Paper submission: May 15th, 2022 (EXTENDED!)
- Notification to authors: May 25th, 2022
- Workshop date: June 28th, 2022 (ONLINE AND ONSITE)


Topics:

- 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
- Knowledge Graphs
- Neural technologies
- Social Media-based embeddings
- Hate Speech Detection
- Fake News Detection
- User Interfaces
- Visualization of Social Media data
- Community Detection
- Social Media applications
- Privacy and Social Media