International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media ICWSM on August 26-27, 2026 in Paris, France

Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
Analyzing relationship between social media and mainstream media
Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors both within genres and between genres of data
Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
Data acquisition: crawling/spidering and indexing
Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
Multimedia: tools and techniques for distribution, sharing, and analysis of social activity with/around multimedia.
Semantic analysis; cross-system and cross-media name tracking; named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization
Semantic Web; unstructured knowledge management; collaborative creation of structured knowledge
Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction
Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques