Call: EUSN 2021 Session - Social media & network analytics

Please consider submitting an abstract to the session “Social media analysis and network analytics" at the upcoming 5th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN), September 7-10, 2021 in Naples (Italy).

Session organizers:

- Lara Fontanella and Mara Maretti, Department of Legal and Social Sciences, Chieti-Pescara University, Italy

- Maria Prosperina Vitale, Department of Political and Social Studies, University of Salerno, Italy

Session description:

The dissemination and use of social media have grown widely worldwide in the last 15 years. Social media influence politics and economics and redefine identity, social practices, and lifestyles. In the era of “Big Data”, the ubiquity and quantity of content created every day by social media provide great opportunities and unique challenges for applying network analytics to unstructured data, such as social media interactions and textual contents. In big data applications, graphs are huge, with thousands, even millions of nodes and edges. Graph spectra, graph summarization and network sampling techniques can be employed to understand the information encoded in large graphs. In addition, graph theory and network analytics can help in inferring information and analysing community structures in social media networks. Social Network Analysis can provide insights into different research fields, such as computational propaganda, dis/misinformation mining, fake news and bot detection, opinion and emotion mining, virtual community of practice.

Topics of interest include

Graph mining of social media data

Network sampling for social media data

Network simulation models

Social Media Network Analysis

Social Media Visualization and Community Detection

Social Network Analysis for Fake News and Bot detection

Social Network Analysis for online dis/misinformation mining

Social Network Analysis for online opinion and emotion mining

Social Network Analysis for the analysis of virtual community of practice

Online communication networks

Submission Details:

When submitting your abstract for an oral presentation, please select the Organized Session title from the list of session titles.

Deadline: May 23, 2021

Submission link: http://www.eusn2021.unina.it/callforpapers.html

Please, do not hesitate to contact the session organisers if you have any further questions.