MICROBLOGGING: WHAT AND HOW CAN WE LEARN FROM IT?
CHI 2010 Workshop
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Saturday, April 11, 2010
Workshop Site: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~julia/chi2010.html
ORGANIZERS
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Julia Grace, IBM Research, Almaden
Dejin Zhao, Penn State University, University Park
danah boyd, Microsoft Research, New England
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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Communication via short, real-time message broadcast, also known as
microblogging, is relatively a new communication channel for people to share information. We use microblogging as an umbrella term to include status updates from social networks such as Facebook, and message-exchange services such as Twitter.
Recent research has shown that people employ these services to share informal information they would likely not otherwise publish through other mediums (i.e., email, phone, IM, or weblogs). Microblogging has become quite popular quickly, catching researchers’ interests as both a means of public, social information exchange, and a medium for collaboration and communication in the work context.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to exchange insights into how microblogs are used in enterprises, academic and social settings, developing an agenda for what and how we can learn from and better study this phenomenon.
CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
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Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
Participants are asked to submit a 2-page position paper in ACM CHI format.
The organisers encourage submissions of microblogging research work in both social context and work settings. Position papers should address specific research questions of authors’ work, methodological approaches, contributions to the area, important conversations to have for now, and short biographies for each author. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the workshop and for one or more days of the conference itself.
Please email submissions to chi-2010-microblogging@googlegrops.com using the subject "CHI 2010 Microblogging Workshop Submission". Submissions are due at midnight PST Jan 6, 2010. The organisers will notify all participants of acceptance or rejection on Jan 30th, 2010.
