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Welcome to
SIG-SM

The mission of SIG SM is to provide a platform for researchers and professionals interested in social media to connect with one another, discuss research in the field, and share their own work.

Catherine Dumas

Meet the 2022-23
SIG-SM Team Chair

Catherine DumasĀ is the current chair of SIG-SM and an Assistant Professor at Simmons University at the School of Library & Information Science. Her research is motivated by data generated by platforms potentially used for online collective action or digital activism.

SIG-SM 2022 awards winner

2022 SIG-SM
AWARD WINNER

Isha Gosh andĀ  Vivek Singh from Rutgers University won the 2022 SIG SM award with their paper: "Not all my friends are friendsā€: Audience-group-based nudges for managing location privacy

 

2022 SIG-SM
RUNNER UP

Saira Hanif Soroya from University of the Punjab, Lahore presented their paper: From information seeking to information avoidance: Understanding the health information behavior during a global health crisis at the second SIG SM Workshop in Pittsburgh. They were the runners up.

 

2022 SIG-SM
HONORABLE MENTION

Amir Karami from University of Alabama presented their paper at the second SIG SM Workshop and won the honorable mention: Analysis of Geotagging Behavior: Do Geotagged Users Represent the Twitter Population?
Amir is also the immediate past chair of SIG SM(2021-2022)

 

Yu-Ru Guest Speaker

2022 SIG-SM
GUEST SPEAKER

Yu-Ru Lin is an associate professor at School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh. She is interested in studying social and political networks, as well as computational and visualization methods for understanding network data. As the guest speaker at the second SIG SM workshop at Pittsburgh, 2022, she talked on: Measuring Engagement Online and At Risk Offline

 

SIG SM Members at the second workshop in Pittsburgh

SIG-SM
MEMBERS

SIG SM Members at the second SIG SM workshop at Pittsburgh, 2022.

 

About Our SIG

The mission of SIG SM is to provide a platform for researchers and professionals interested in social media to connect with one another, discuss research in the field, and share their own work. SIG SM aims to cover a wide range of social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouNow) and a wide range of methodological (e.g. case studies, content analysis, user behavior) and theoretical perspectives (e.g. personal behavior theories, social behavior theories and mass communication theories). We welcome all of those interested in social media research to join our SIG.

If you are already an ASIS&T member and wish to become a member of SIG-SM, just select us in the InfoHub. See below for information on how to join ASIS&T, please see below.

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SIG SM Digest

Curious about previous news shared by our SIG SM members? Here you can find more about the research that our SIG SM members are doing.

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Member Spotlight

Welcome to our SIG Social Media Member Spotlight Series! On this site we will introduce the members of SIG SM and their research interests. If you would like to by feautred do not hestitate to contact any of our board members!

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How to Join

To be a member, one first needs to be a member of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). When completing the Membership Application Form, select the special interest group (SIG) of your choice.

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