[CITASA] Suggested addition to CITASA site: useful conferences and journals

[Thomas M. Lento]

Here are a few. Note I've never been to CHI or KDD, but I have read  
some of the papers from those conferences. I have attended all of the  
others at least once:

ICWSM - International Conference on Weblogging and Social Media
http://www.icwsm.org

This is a cross-disciplinary conference, where you'll see papers on  
machine learning techniques for identifying spam, psychological  
studies of comment response patterns, and ethnographic analysis of  
social networking services all in the same place. It's coming along  
nicely, and I'd like to see more Sociologists presenting their work.  
It's focused on weblogs and web 2.0, but you can definitely use those  
as a data source for sociological analysis and get good traction.

WWW - (primarily the section on social networking)
http://www.www2009.org

This is one of the most competitive CS conferences out there - a main  
track paper here is the equivalent of a publication in AJS or ASR,  
although you'll be hard pressed to convince most Sociology  
departments that any conference paper is worth anything. The section  
on social networking is usually excellent. Given the expense and the  
high barrier for entry (they won't take a basic statistical analysis  
of some online network - you'd better be looking at a million nodes  
and doing something technically interesting in addition to gleaning  
meaningful sociological insights) it's probably not for everyone, but  
if you get a chance you should go at least once - and definitely dig  
out the proceedings and see if there's anything of interest to you.

HICSS - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (digital  
spaces and persistent conversations tracks)
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

This conference gets mixed reviews, but the sociological, social  
psychological, and HCI tracks (named above) are good. I personally  
did not find much utility in the social networks tracks, but I have  
highly specific needs, so maybe you'll get some use out of it. This  
is akin to a minor publication, and they do encourage resubmission to  
a journal although I think a lot of the folks who publish there are  
CS types who focus more on conference pubs than journals.

CHI - ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
http://www.chi2009.org

I know little about CHI, but I have seen some nuggets of interesting  
social science come out of here. Pay attention to the proceedings,  
and maybe you'll be in a position to publish there someday. It's one  
of the main HCI conferences.

For the more technically oriented among us, KDD often has items of  
sociological interest mixed in with the crazy technical data mining  
papers.


Note - apart from HICSS, all of these conferences are final  
publication venues - you should not re-use the same paper and publish  
it someplace else.

Sunbelt (the INSNA conference) and ASA are worth attending, but they  
are not publication venues.

-Tom

On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:24 AM, William A Anderson wrote:

> This sounds like a good idea to me.  It could help improve the  
> resources tab of the website.
>
> I'd like to see what the list thinks about the different  
> suggestions, though.  So, if we can post them to the list so that  
> members can comment, that would be good.  If I don't hear anything  
> about a particular resource, I'll go ahead and post it.
>
> One suggestion, though.  Along with a title and a link (e.g. New  
> Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/)), give a sentence or two  
> about why it's a good resource, who the intended audience is, what  
> it's main theme or content is, etc.  Right now the resources tab is  
> a long list of links which you have to follow to figure out what  
> they are.  It'd be good to have a little information up front and  
> it'll help me organize the resources into appropriate categories.
>
> Will Anderson
> Communications Coordinator
> CITASA
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> From: citasa-bounces at list.citasa.org [citasa- 
> bounces at list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Piotr Konieczny [piokon at post.pl]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:21 PM
> To: citasa at list.citasa.org
> Subject: [CITASA] Suggested addition to CITASA site: useful  
> conferences and journals
>
> Dear all,
>
> While browsing through our official website (http://www.citasa.org), I
> thought of a useful addition: a list of conferences and journals  
> that we
> consider most useful and interesting. This would be particularly  
> useful
> to our new members (including myself, I should note), who are just
> starting their adventure with CITASA and may not know what are the
> estabilished conferences and 'need-to-read' journals in our field.
>
> Do you think this would be a worthwhile addition to the website? If  
> so,
> perhaps we can brainstorm the additions here, and then whoever is
> responsible for the website can pick through our suggestions and add
> them there?
>
> To start, here are some thoughts (the below list is certainly not
> comprehensive, and represents only my limited experience):
>
> Conferences
> * WikiSym / International Symposium on Wikis
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiSym)
> * Wikimania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimania)
>
> Journals
> * First Monday (http://firstmonday.org/)
> * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology
> (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijict)
> * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology
> Education (IJICTE) (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp? 
> id=4287)
> * Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
> (http://itdl.org/index.htm0
> * Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) (http:// 
> www.jitp.net/)
> * New Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/)
>
>
> --
> Piotr Konieczny
>
> "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in
> theory."
>
>
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