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Fall 2021 Social Media Lab Guest Speaker Series: “Studying the COVID-19 Infodemic at Scale”

We are delighted to announce the schedule of the Fall 2021 Social Media Lab Guest Speaker Series. The series will feature six selected studies published in the special theme issue of Big Data & Society (BD&S) on “Studying the COVID-19 Infodemic at Scale” (Editors: Anatoliy Gruzd, Manlio De Domenico, Pier Luigi Sacco, Sylvie Briand).

The guest talks will highlight some of the benefits and challenges of detecting and combating the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on social media. In particular, the talks will provide concrete examples of how digital trace data can be used to assess and mitigate the infodemic risks and consequences on individuals and society.

All sessions are free and open to the public, but you will need to register to receive a Google Meet access link to attend each talk.

Fall 2021 Social Media Lab Guest Speaker Series: “Studying the COVID-19 Infodemic at Scale” | Social Media Lab We are delighted to announce the schedule of the Fall 2021 Social Media Lab Guest Speaker Series. The series will feature six selected studies published in the special theme issue of Big Data & Society (BD&S) on “Studying the COVID-19 Infodemic at Scale” (Editors: Anatoliy Gruzd, Manlio De Do...

Dear Colleagues,

The organizing committee of the 10th Annual International Conference on Social Media and Society ( ) invites you to visit Toronto on July 19-21, 2019. This year’s conference will be held at the Ted Rogers School of Management and hosted by Ryerson University Social Media Lab. The 2019 conference theme is “Rethinking Privacy and Trust in the Social Media Age.”

The Conference offers an intensive 3-day program including hands-on workshops, full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters featuring the latest in social media research. This year, we are honoured to have two highly distinguished scholars as our keynote speakers:
• Tarleton Gillespie, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and an affiliated professor in the Department of Communication and Department of Information Science at Cornell University. His new book, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale University Press) was published in June 2018.
• Valerie Steeves, a professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. As the lead researcher of MediaSmarts’ Young Canadians in a Wired World research project, she has been tracking young people’s use of new media since 2000. She is also the principal investigator of The eQuality Project, a seven-year partnership exploring young people’s experiences of privacy and equality in networked spaces. More info at: https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2019/announcement-of-2019-keynotes/

Submission Deadline:
There is still time to submit a poster, panel or hands-on workshop proposal (due March 18, midnight, Hawaiian time). We hope you consider submitting your work to the conference and join our interdisciplinary community of researchers. More info at: https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/

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