CFP: CHI 2010 Workshop on Microblogging

> 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.
> We 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. We will notify all participants of
> acceptance or
> rejection on Jan 30th, 2010.
>