Obtaining a critical mass of followers on social media is how one influences thought, generates income, and mobilizes action. Generating mass followers is the goal of business, policy leaders, social entrepreneurs and, unfortunately, subversive actors. The New York times article The Follower Factory, published on line on January, 27th 2018, described the methodology for achieving […]
SPeL 2018 11th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2018 In conjunction with MIS4TEL 2018 (8th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning) https://www.mis4tel-conference.net 20-22 June 2018 Toledo, Spain * Extended paper submission deadline: February 19, 2018 (preceded by a mandatory abstract submission by February 12) […]
*Online Information Review* (OIR) Special Issue on “*Social Media Mining for Journalism*” Journal: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/oir Special issue: http://bit.ly/oir-smj [[ Impact Factor: 1.534 ]] Submission Deadline: *February 28, 2018* —————————————————————————————— AIMS AND SCOPE ————————– The exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in capturing and announcing breaking news events more rapidly […]
mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2018 Brighton UK during 14-15 June 2018, @Hilton Metropole. www.m4life.org This year’s main theme of mobileGovWS2018 is mindfulGovernments: how public sector IT and service delivery to citizens are influenced by the mobile and artificial Intelligence technologies. As is the tradition, we do not just ‘organise’ a conference but […]
At the 11th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference (CEECOM 2018, from 30 May to 1 June, 2018, in Szeged, Hungary, http://ceecom2018.hu/ ) we are organizing a panel entitled *Platforms and Digital Journalism – Mapping the Connections between Technology, Culture and Policy*, and we would welcome submissions from scholars of the current digital […]
The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panels for the 2018 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference to be held 20-24 June in Eugene, Oregon, USA. The deadline for submissions is midnight GMT on 31 January 2018. The conference will be held under the […]
Wearable technology is a thing of the future, and the future is here. The first Bluetooth device was sold in 2000 and from there, wearable technology took off. The Go Pro broke out in 2004, Google Glass took off in 2013, and over the next few years we will see a variety of devices emerge […]
On December 15, AOL Instant Messenger will be shutting down for the final time after 20 years of service. AOL Instant Messenger, AIM, was created in 1997 by AOL accidentally and became the leading instant messenger online chat system in North America. Available from only a desktop computer, it was one of the first instant chat […]